As nouns the difference between refinery and blowdown
is that refinery is a building, or a mass of machinery, used to produce refined products such as sugar, oil, or metals while blowdown is (chemical engineering) the removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure.
refinery
Noun
(refineries)
A building, or a mass of machinery, used to produce refined products such as sugar, oil, or metals.
Related terms
* refine
* refinement
blowdown
English
Noun
(
en noun)
(chemical engineering) The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by the use of pressure
(industrial engineering) Cooling fluid discharged from a plant at the end of its cycle.