Reduce the amount of material retained in the device
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Original: Reduce the amount of material remaining in the equipment. Translation: Reduce Residues in the Vessels (or in the plant). Question: I’m looking for a more professional way to express this. Background: An operation performed when the unit is shut down (normal shutdown).
reduce the amount of resident materials in the vessels
minimize the inventory in the plant (vessels, equipment, columns)
The translation of the original sentence is excellent. For devices, it is recommended to use “installations residue” to refer to residues. Example sentence: Residue and vapour are continuously removed from the boiler.
reduce the amount of resident materials in the vessels is more in line with the writing standards of scientific texts
There are 1,001 ways to put it, if one isn’t restricted to word-by-word translation. For that term “residue,” here are two more words with similar meanings: (liquid) holdup, which refers to the amount of liquid retained; for reference only. This seems to be quite professional. It can also be said as “trapped,” meaning trapped inside and unable to get out.
we can say: keep the vessels at low liquid levels.