recovery boiler

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A boiler for recovering the sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide used in a chemical wood pulping process.
  2. Ellipsis of heat recovery boiler (“a boiler used to recover heat from a hot process stream, such as flue gas from a gas turbine”).

Word forms

recovery boiler recovery boilers
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