emergency shut-down

Are your staff trained in emergency shut-down procedures for utilities?

The pump house was also the location of the emergency shut-down valve.

Has the red emergency shut-down button been pressed and not returned to the "Off" position?

The power station underwent a brief emergency shut-down on Sept. 5.

This involved over 1,500 instrumentation loops and complex emergency shut-down systems.

The unit, the statement said, is isolated and emergency shut-down valves are closed.

A statement from Williams said that emergency shut-down valves had been closed at the plant and the unit was isolated.

Without hesitation the crew conducted an emergency shut-down and exited the aircraft.

The emergency shut-down failed and the reactor exploded.

Workers were able to close the emergency shut-down valves and isolate the unit after the blast, the plant operator said.

Send him the emergency shut-down signal.

Emergency shut-down and disabling of pumps where specific parameters have fallen above or below a preset range.

Emergency shut-down valves have been closed.

He says significant damage to an emergency shut-down system has resulted in a boil-water order for the majority of the town, where roughly 3,000 people live.

Older standards use terms like safety shut-down systems, emergency shut-down systems or last layers of defence.

After conducting an emergency shut-down, the crew found damage to the CH-47's hydraulic control lines which could have been catastrophic.

Security officials on the platform responded initially though stopped to prevent a fire on the rig, initiating an emergency shut-down procedure instead.

Plekhanov degeared and slapped at the power switch, killed the juice to his computer, not bothering with the emergency shut-down procedures.

Marsh ordered all personnel to evacuate the immediate area and remained at the boiler room console to carry out the emergency shut-down procedures.

The pre-test is also used to verify any special control features such as; abort tolerances, response limits, field shaping and emergency shut-down procedures.

It is used as a secondary, emergency shut-down measure in some nuclear reactors, particularly of the CANDU type.

The Chief Engineer was the first to reach the central console in the engine control room, and without orders from the bridge he began emergency shut-down of all systems.

Plutonium also makes control rods and boron less effective in slowing down a nuclear reaction--two crucial elements in the emergency shut-down of a reactor during a "criticality incident."

The control and scram system comprises 27 reactivity control elements including 19 shimming rods, two automatic control rods, and six automatic emergency shut-down rods.

A notable exception to this fail-safe mode of operation is the BWR, which requires hydraulic insertion in the event of an emergency shut-down, using water from a special tank under high pressure.