Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

accumulo

English translation:

storage

Added to glossary by TechLawDC
Aug 11, 2012 13:17
11 yrs ago
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Italian term

accumulo

Italian to English Tech/Engineering Mechanics / Mech Engineering combi boiler
A search has turned up conflicting ideas from past kudoz, so hopefully someone will be able to enlighten me for this particular context. It's a wall-mounted domestic condensing gas boiler. It has an instantaneous hot-water function as well.

Impostazione tipo caldaia

0 = combinata con scambiatore a piastre
1= combinata con accumulo sanitario
2= solo riscaldamento
3= micro accumulo
4= accumulo con doppia pompa
Proposed translations (English)
1 storage
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Nov 13, 2012 22:56: TechLawDC Created KOG entry

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storage

(I think that accumulo = storage, in the context of a boiler.)
"accumulo sanitario" may mean storage of hot water.

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Note added at 44 mins (2012-08-11 14:01:57 GMT)
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(I think "accumulo sanitario" is not storage of sanitary water, but you can never know. If it were, "sanitary water" would mean spent water intended for disposal or discharge.)
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Definition for sanitary water:
Web definitions:
Water discharged from restrooms, showers, food preparation facilities, or other nonindustrial operations; also known as "gray...
www.green-networld.com/facts/glossary.htm
Note from asker:
Sanitario is just domestic hot water (DHW) as opposed to the central-heating circuit in the combi boiler. I had rejected storage as the instantaneous hot water function involves pre-heating the heat exchanger, but I suppose it is possible it has a DHW storage tank
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