English translation of "opération de dépotage" - "unloading operation"

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212 months ago

Gina W asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	opération de dépotage
Context:	L’état des réservoirs et des fûts contenant des matières dangereuses doit être inspecté à
Keywords:	...chaque opération de dépotage. // This is an entry in a table in the column "Paramètre de surveillance", row heading "Fuites ou déversement accidentels de matières toxiques et dangereuses"

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212 months ago

wrote:

unloading operation

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212 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

unloading operation

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212 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

pulp dumping operation

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This is the translation I found on IATE for the term "d�potage"," in an industrial context. There seems to be a few references to pulp dumping related to toxic material on google, too.

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IATE, google

212 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

decanting operation

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212 months ago

wrote:

I use this term too, as I often had to decant water into a flask in a materials science laboratory.

212 months ago

wrote:

Sorry guys, wrong depotage, depotage here is literally removing from the pot, i.e. unloading.