A type of filter capacity test in which a clogging contaminant is added to the influent of a filter, under specified test conditions, to produce a given rise in pressure drop across the filter or until a specified reduction of flow is reached. Filter life ...

Military Assistance Program.

West European Confederation of Maritime Technology Societies

Water-Tube Boiler Survey

Strong winds concentrated within a narrow band in the atmosphere. The jet stream often "steers" surface features such as front and low pressure systems.

The height ascribed to the lowest layer of clouds or obscuring phenomena when it is reported as broken, overcast, or obscuration and not classified as "thin" or "partial." The ceiling is termed unlimited when these conditions are not satisfied. ...

A line rove through a single block secured aloft.

Non-Condensing

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 ...

Cubic capacity of a vessels holds to carry packaged dry cargo such as bales/pallets.

In reference to solid biomass fuels, such as wood, having zero moisture content.

An annual charge made in a company's profit and loss account to reduce the value of an asset to zero.

The current density, often referred to as limiting current density, that corresponds to the maximum transfer rate that a particular species can sustain because of the limitation of diffusion.

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

In the direction from which the wind is blowing.

A material or structural element that inhibits air flow into and out of a building's envelope or shell. This is a continuous sheet composed of polyethylene, polypropylene, or extruded polystyrene. The sheet is wrapped around the outside of a house during ...

The condition of being electrically separated from other metallic structures or the environment.

Unit Logistics Management System

Seawater containing a higher concentration of dissolved salt than that of the ordinary ocean.

see Air-Source Heat Pump.