a cylindrical vessel through which tubes pass, esp one forming part of an evaporator, heat exchanger, or nuclear reactor
Word origin
C20: arbitrarily named, from Spanish, literally: lark
Examples of 'calandria' in a sentence
calandria
The debris bed transfers heat to the calandria vault water which acts as the ultimate heat sink.
P.P. KULKARNI, S.V. PRASAD, A.K. NAYAK, P.K. VIJAYAN 2013, 'THERMAL AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF CALANDRIA VESSEL OF A PHWR DURING A SEVERE ACCIDENT',Nuclear Engineering and Technologyhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573315300322. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)