A hard, dense type of coal, that is hard to break, clean to handle, difficult to ignite, and that burns with an intense flame and with the virtual absence of smoke because it contains a high percentage of fixed carbon and a low percentage of volatile matt ...

The cost of producing electricity up to the point of the powerplant busbar.

A chemical substance or mixture that prevents or reduces the rate of the cathodic or reduction reaction by physical, physico-chemical or chemical action.

Distilled Water or Drill Water.

Water-Tube Boiler Survey

A line rove through a single block secured aloft.

General name for a type of instrument which measures the inclination of the wind to the horizontal plane. See bivane.

An old name for high waves when they break with a white crest.

The process of decomposing biomass with anaerobic bacteria to produce biogas.

Nautical name for an argumentative person.

Above the upper deck (above).

Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor. A method of making silicon chips that results in low power consumption by the circuits.

A unit for measuring the extent that the outdoor daily average temperature (the mean of the maximum and minimum daily dry-bulb temperatures) falls below (in the case of heating, see Heating Degree Day), or falls above (in the case of cooling, see Cooling ...

Underwriters Lab.

A device for obtaining a continuous record of stage at a point on a stream. The most common recorders consist of a float-actuated pen which traces a record on a clock driven chart.

Emergency.

The conversion of biomass into a gas, by biogasification (see above) or thermal gasification, in which hydrogen is produced from high-temperature gasifying and low-temperature pyrolysis of biomass.

Wrecked

Mandatory Annual Survey (SOLAS,MARPOL)

West European Confederation of Maritime Technology Societies