Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

modular one-megawatt generators scale

French translation:

qui permettent une évolutivité de nos générateurs 1 mégawatt modulaires

Added to glossary by Eric KUATE FOTSO
Jul 25, 2017 10:23
6 yrs ago
English term

modular one-megawatt generators scale

English to French Tech/Engineering Energy / Power Generation
We will also discuss the scalable (Name of the company) power solution configurations which helps our modular one-megawatt generators scale to provide support for a Multi-megawatt power production plants.

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qui permettent une évolutivité de nos générateurs 1 mégawatt modulaires

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Note added at 12 minutes (2017-07-25 10:36:08 GMT)
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mot clé ici modular

un collègue expert me dit qu'on parle d'évolutivité des générateurs
Note from asker:
Merci
Peer comment(s):

agree claude-andrew
4 hrs
disagree Daryo : "évolutivité" [= "scalability"] is for sure the right term for this ST, but it relates to the whole setup [the "power solution configuration"], not to any one individual module as your formulation would imply
13 hrs
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qui permettent à nos générateurs modulaires de 1 mégawatt de monter en capacité




oublié modulaire

which helps /our modular one-megawatt generators/
scale
to provide support for a Multi-megawatt power production plants

= on peut combiner plusieurs générateurs je suppose
Note from asker:
Merci
Peer comment(s):

disagree Daryo : each of them has 1 MW capacity - you can't increase that // what you can do is to combine many of them together, but what you increase then is the total capacity of all of them combined, not of any individual generator [as you put it]
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English term (edited): modular one-megawatt generators

groupes électrogènes modulaires d'un megawatt

the term to translate is in fact ONLY

modular one-megawatt generators = one-megawatt generators that can be modules used to build one much larger source of electrical power.

modules: same elements repeatedly used to build a bigger set, here the same "one-megawatt generators" used to create a set of 2,3, 4 ... of them

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Note added at 13 hrs (2017-07-25 23:34:09 GMT)
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in this sentence "scale" is a verb, "power configuration" [comprising 1, 2, 3, ...."modules" generating 1MW each] is what is being "scaled" (thus unsurprisingly this "power solution" is qualified as "scalable"); that corresponds to the concept of "évolutivité"


Évolutivité

L’évolutivité est un critère de conception primordial des alimentations de secours modernes : les systèmes d’alimentation et de contrôle-commande doivent croître au rythme de la demande énergétique et des nouveaux besoins et priorités des clients, sans sacrifier à la qualité ou à la fiabilité, ni entraîner d’arrêts.

L’extension d’un datacenter est souvent progressive. Un système d’alimentation d’urgence moderne doit fonctionner à plein, depuis le début de l’exploitation jusqu’à l’ultime agrandissement du datacenter. Il faut donc étudier avec soin l’alimentation électrique, l’architecture de communication, le contrôle-commande et l’infrastructure du bâtiment. Utiliser des composants standardisés, garantissant une compatibilité amont/aval et une disponibilité sur le long terme, permet de faire évoluer et de déployer le système sur plusieurs années, sans avoir à tout remplacer.

https://library.e.abb.com/public/67f3076796969643c1257c5a004...

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Note added at 13 hrs (2017-07-26 00:00:32 GMT)
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scalable (Name of the company) power solution configurations which helps our modular one-megawatt generators scale to provide support for a Multi-megawatt power production plants.
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IOW our "1MW generators" are modules that can be used as part of a scalable power supply configuration
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configurations évolutives de ... qui permettent à nos groupes électrogènes modulaires d'un mégawatt de contribuer à [/ d'assurer] l'évolutivité de la fourniture d'énergie électrique

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Note added at 14 hrs (2017-07-26 00:36:13 GMT)
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regarding modularity / scalability:

bricks are all the same - the wall can be bigger or smaller.

modules (producing each 1MW) are all the same and can't be modified, the power supply assured by a combination of several of them can be changed / is "scalable".
Peer comment(s):

agree Tony M : I think Asker's real issue was exactly that,: how to translate the verb 'to scale' here, which you haven't really fully addressed
7 hrs
disagree GILLES MEUNIER : confusion avec generator sets
1 day 10 hrs
agree Johannes Gleim : 1-MW-scale of modules. Units scalable by adding further modules.
3 days 12 hrs
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