| 释义 |
ˈafterˌcooler
[after- 9.]
An apparatus for cooling air discharged from a compressor.
1903W. C. Popplewell Compressed Air iii. 62 In some cases this intercooler is used as an ‘after-cooler’, through which the air is allowed to pass after leaving the high-pressure cylinder of the compressor. 1916D. Penman Compressed Air Practice in Mining vi. 95 Where the capacity of the receiver is insufficient to allow the air to cool down..after-coolers are often placed in the pipe-line somewhere between the receiver and the compressor. 1944Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XLVIII. (Abstr.) 673 Inter-coolers may be either of the air to air or liquid to air type and can be positioned either between the two stages of the supercharger (intercooler proper) or between the second stage of the engine (so-called aftercoolers). 1948D. A. Wrangham Heat Engines (ed. 2) v. 94 With the object of removing moisture, coolers are sometimes fitted after the last stage, and for this reason are called After coolers. |