Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

ft above Tan

English answer:

ft above tangent

    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2013-04-09 09:54:08 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Apr 6, 2013 07:53
11 yrs ago
English term

ft above Tan

English Tech/Engineering Petroleum Eng/Sci Petroleum Processing
What is the meaning of Tan?

Handbook of Petroleum Processing - Página 918 - Resultado da Pesquisa de livros do Google
books.google.com.br/books?isbn=1402028202
David S. J. Jones, ̤ Peter R. Pujad - 2006 - Technology & Engineering
Height of NLL above Tan = level range will be 24 then HLL will be 12 +1 = 13 ft above NLL. Let the reboiler inlet nozzle be 3 ft above HLL = 16 ft above Tan.
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5 +4 tangent
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+4
22 mins
English term (edited): tan
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tangent

It says so on page 907 of your book!

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Note added at 23 mins (2013-04-06 08:16:11 GMT)
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http://books.google.fr/books?id=wiNI7ZfoNZMC&pg=PA907&lpg=PA...
Peer comment(s):

agree Charles Davis : And I dimly recall "cos", "sin" and "tan" from maths classes back in the Stone Age.
59 mins
Thanks, Charles! I was always pretty dim at maths, barely scraped through my A-level; but I couldn't at first sight see the relevance here, but hey, it does seem to be the term they use, we don't need to worry here about WHY? ;-)
agree Terry Richards : Tangent means "touching". The tangent here is a plane that "sits" on the highest points of the ground. It's an arbitary ground reference level.
2 hrs
Thanks, Terry! Yes, now THAT certainly makes sense in Asker's context.
agree Yvonne Gallagher
4 hrs
Thanks, G2!
agree Phong Le
2 days 1 hr
Thanks, Phong Le!
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