trommel
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- noun
- Specialized
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trommel
- The workers carefully fed the crushed stone into the trommel to separate the different sizes of gravel.
- trommel screen
- load the trommel
- pass through a trommel
Examples
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Separation of inorganic fines is accomplished in the trommel's first stage.
Academic text (2000) -
Materials are then loaded into a large trommel with three-inch screen openings.
Academic text (1996) -
After 12 weeks, material is put through a Royer trommel screen.
Academic text (2000) -
The two streams are brought together again for the primary trommel sort with a 1/4-inch screen.
Academic text (1996) -
Now it is located after the primary trommel, which screens material as it comes out of the digester.
Academic text (1996) -
Instead, the caps are separated with a trommel screen after composting.
Academic text (1997) -
Next, feedstocks from the bioreactor pass through a rotary trommel screen.
Academic text (1999) -
The pretreatment unit includes a rotating drum, trommel screen, and magnetic separator.
Academic text (1997) -
As the residue passes through the trommel, small particles are shaken loose and drop through the mesh.
Academic text (2000) -
The plastics and other rejects collected in the trommel overs represent one-quarter to one-third of the MSW delivered to the facility.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
A machine that separates whole grains from broken ones using a turning cylinder with small pockets
Surface Forms
Etymology
Trommel was later used for a large, rotating cylinder in mining and recycling because the machine is shaped like a 'drum' and turns, so a trommel sorts materials by size.