A filter unit that combines three principles to filter out oil aerosols: 1) Direct interception - A sieving action, 2) Inertial impaction - Collision with filter media fibers, 3) Diffusion -Particles travel in a spiral motion, presenting an effective fron ...

Coasting Service in the Philippines and Home Trade limit Service.

A wall to prevent the spread of fire; usually made of non-combustible material.

A weakly colored lunar halo identical in form and optical origin to the solar parhelion.

Freight charges paid by the consignor (shipper) prior to the release of the bills of lading by the carrier.

Competent Harbour Authority

Special Periodical Survey of Inert Gas System

Water that contains certain salts, such as those of calcium or magnesium, which form insoluble deposits in boilers and form precipitates with soap.

A tube with a narrow throat (a constriction) that increases the velocity and lowers the pressure of the liquid passing through it, creating a partial vacuum immediately after the constriction in the tube. The vacuum created has a sucking effect, and a ven ...

The total infrared radiation emitted from the earth's surface. To be carefully distinguished from atmospheric radiation, effective terrestrial radiation, and insolation.

A unit of pressure for a fluid, commonly used in water pumping and hydropower to express height a pump must lift water, or the distance water falls. Total head accounts for friction head losses, etc.

The process by which materials expel or release gasses.

Where meals are eaten

Surface discoloration of a metal caused by formation of a thin film of corrosion product.

The amount of useful energy produced by a system less the amount of energy required to produce the fuel.

When the wind shifts toward the bow. Opposite of lifted.

Taxation which is levied in an indirect way rather than being charged directly on an individual's.

The amount of heat introduced to a space from all heat producing sources, such as building occupants, lights, appliances, and from the environment, mainly solar energy.

A tax allowance which takes account of depreciation of certain types of business assets such as.

The electric current that flows between metals or conductive nonmetal in a galvanic couple.