An instrument for measuring the amount of air flow of a compressor. Measured in CFM.

Leave the vessel.

Small stuff seized across a hook to prevent it from unshipping (once hooked, mousing keeps the hook on).

The total amount of electricity produced by a power plant.

Entire weight of goods, packaging and freight car or container, ready for shipment. Generally, 80,000 pounds maximum container, cargo and tractor for highway transport.

A solar energy array that follows the path of the sun to maximize the solar radiation incident on the PV surface. The two most common orientations are (1) one axis where the array tracks the sun east to west and (2) two-axis tracking where the array point ...

A company's value is sometimes measured in terms of the total funds being used to finance it..

(HIP)A plan enabling the normally elderly owner or owners of a property to utilise its capital value.

Ship Tracking and Retrieval System

A type of furnace or reactor in which the emission of sulfur compounds is lowered by the addition of crushed limestone in the fluidized bed thus obviating the need for much of the expensive stack gas clean-up equipment. The particles are collected and rec ...

The measure of the instantaneous energy efficiency of room air conditioners; the cooling capacity in Btu/hr divided by the watts of power consumed at a specific outdoor temperature (usually 95 degrees Fahrenheit).

To coil flat down on deck, each fake outside the other, beginning in the middle and all close together.

Chemical reactions, typically associated with combustion processes; the balancing of chemical reactions by providing the exact proportions of reactant compounds to ensure a complete reaction; all the reactants are used up to produce a single set of produc ...

Also called solidification crackinghot cracking of weldments is caused by the segregation at grain boundaries of low-melting constituents in the weld metal. This can resultin grain-boundary tearing under thermal contraction stresses. Hot cracking can be m ...

The formation of blisters on or below a metal surface from excessive internal hydrogen pressure; Formation of blister-like bulges on a ductile metal surface caused by internal hydrogen pressures. Hydrogen may beformed during cleaning, plating, corrosion, ...

The heavy oxide layer formed during hot fabrication or heat treatment of metals.

Plastic deformation by the irreversible shear displacement (translation) of one part of a crystal relative to another in a definite crystallographic direction and usually on a specific crystallographic plane. Sometimes called glide.

The component of either a liquid or solid solution that is present to a lesser or minor extent: the component that is dissolved in thesolution.

Abbreviation for radio frequency.

A credit rating given to a government or coporate bond which indicates that the agency giving the.