Inlet and outlet connections are located at the same level on opposite sides of the filter or other device installed on the pipeline.

Components subordinate to the compressor.

An arrangement whereby a steamship company, under rules and regulations established in the freight tariff of a given trade, accepts small packages at rates below the minimum bill of lading, and issues a parcel receipt instead of a bill of lading.

Working Party on Human Element (IACS)

Space booked by shipper or charterer on a vessel but not used

The component of a central receiver solar thermal system where reflected solar energy is absorbed and converted to thermal energy.

The maximum continuous operating pressure as designed by the manufacturer.

The elevation of the water surface in a stream as measured by a river gauge with reference to some arbitrarily selected zero datum.

Sailing downwind with the wind blowing over the leeward side of the boat, increasing the possibility of an unexpected jibe.

Council of European & Japanese National Shipowners Associations

Coastal Trade limit service in Sabah and Sarawak.

The process of converting materials that are no longer useful as designed or intended into a new product.

An electrical generator that runs at a constant speed and draws its excitation from a power source external or independent of the load or transmission network it is supplying.

The amount of money which flows in and out of a business, the difference between the two being.

An institution which accepts funds from the public and reinvests in bank deposits, bonds and stocks.

Additive that promotes the formation of a stable mixture, or emulsion, of oil and water. Common emulsifiers are: metallic soaps, certain animal and vegetable oils, and various polar compounds.

The Price/Earnings ratio of a company at the time when it is taken over by another.

An accumulation of deposits. This term includes accumulation and growth of marine organisms on a submerged metal surface and also includes the accumulation of deposits (usually inorganic) on heat exchanger tubing.

Time period from when a compressor loads until it unloads.

The Statistical Classification of Domestic and Foreign Commodities Exported from the United States.