Translation for 'ballast' from English to Russian

ballast water

водяной балласт {м}морс.

• A ballast regulator (also known as a ballast spreader or ballast sweeper) is a piece of rail transport maintenance of way equipment used to shape and distribute the gravel track ballast that supports the ties in rail tracks.
• The next step consists of stuffing a deep bed of ballast underneath the new track.
• Compressed air was also used to empty its ballast tanks, which had a volume of 53 m³ (1,872 ft³). Ballast was 212 t (234 tons), including a security ballast of 34 t (37 tons).
• Water ballast bags inside the wings enable loadings up to 50 kg/m2.
• For a lighting ballast, the ANSI ballast factor is used in North America to compare the light output (in lumens) of a lamp operated on a ballast compared to the lamp operating on an ANSI reference ballast.

• Modern tankers also use segregated ballast tanks and these remove the problem of discharge of oily ballast water.
• The ballast bed is then cleared in preparation of laying new concrete sleepers.
• The magnetic ballast remains in place but it is bypassed, rendering it ineffective as a conductor.
• empty of ballast, [...] with full water ballast and carries [...] of flooding water ballast.