Load/unload control system that tries to maximizes compressor efficiency by matching air delivery and air demand. Compressor is operated at full load or idle

Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards (API)

The fundamental constituent of all vegetative tissue; the most abundant material in the world.

Federation Of National Associations of Shipbrokers & Agents

A device for measuring light intensity that works by converting light falling on, or reach it, to electricity, and then measuring the current; used in photometers.

A wall with high thermal mass used to store solar energy passively in a solar home. The wall absorbs solar energy and transfers it to the space behind the wall by means of radiation and by convection currents moving through spaces under, in front of, and ...

Is the ratio of the theoretical work calculated on an isothermal basis to the actual work transferred to the gas during compression.

A range of corrosion potential values in which unacceptable corrosion resistance is achieved for a particular purpose.

Same as aneroid barometer. Holostelic means wholly made of solids, while aneroid means devoid of liquid.

International Telecomunication Union

Military Transportation Management Command

Potentially Responsible Party.

Abbreviation for "Trailer on Flat Car." The movement of a highway trailer on a railroad flatcar. Also known as Piggyback.

Vertical distance from the keel to the uppermost deck, taken inside the ship/s plating.

A small low rail around the deck of a boat. The toe rail may have holes in it to attach lines or blocks and to allow drainage. A larger wall is known as a gunwale.

The power available from the rise and fall of ocean tides. A tidal power plant works on the principal of a dam or barrage that captures water in a basin at the peak of a tidal flow, then directs the water through a hydroelectric turbine as the tide ebbs.

Marine Index Bureau.

A standard unit of atmospheric pressure, defined as the pressure exerted by a 760 mm column of mercury at standard gravity (980.665 cm/sec2 ) at O

1,000 grams or 2.2046 pounds.