Fuel Adjustment Factor

International Bulk Chemical CodeCode for the construction and equipment of ships carrying dangerous chemicals in bulk. (Often wrongly defined in BA publications and charts as International Bulk Carrier code)

Days All Purposes

A compartment in which fuel is stored; fuel consumed by the engines of a ship

Light Displacement Ton

East Coast

The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit of water, at or near the temperature of maximum density, one degree Celsius (or Centigrade [C]); expressed as a "small calorie" (the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram ...

Financed,constructed and operated

The period of time excluding the first and last days.

When a perfect gas flows through a throttling with constant inlet and outlet pressures, the temperature of the gas is the same before and after it flows through the throttling. There is a temperature drop, however, during the passage of gas through the th ...

Offshore Technology Conference

A recording pressure-tube anemometer in which the wind scale of the float manometer has been made linear by the use of springs, i.e. Dines anemometer.

The measure of the efficiency of fluorescent lamp ballasts. It is the relative light output divided by the power input.

Navigation Bridge Systems.

Bahamas Oil Refining Corp.

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.

An octagonal shaped shelter that originated in Mongolia, and traditionally made from leather or canvas for easy transportation.

Worldscale

A case hardening process in which a suitable ferrous material is heated above the lower transformation temperature in a gaseous atmosphere of such composition as to cause simultaneous absorption of carbon and nitrogen by the surface and, by diffusion, cre ...

The amount of energy (in electron volts) required to free an outer shell electron from its orbit about the nucleus to a free state, and thus promote it from the valence to the conduction level.