freezing of a piston ring in its groove in a piston engine or reciprocating compressor due to heavy deposits in the piston ring zone.

Mobile Satellite Services.

A structure used to cool power plant water; water is pumped to the top of the tubular tower and sprayed out into the center, and is cooled by evaporation as it falls, and then is either recycled within the plant or is discharged.

Abrasion, wear or damage to a line caused by rubbing against another object

A small wooden box, with lock and key, in which seamen keep sentimental valuables, stationery, and sundry small stores.

Light displacement tonnage, lost during transhipment

Compressor controls will run the compressor at varying loads to accommodate demand variations. Running a compressor at less than full load results in a drop in compressor efficiency and thus an increase in operating costs.

A solar thermal technology that uses a modular mirror system that approximates a parabola and incorporates two-axis tracking to focus the sunlight onto receivers located at the focal point of each dish. The mirror system typically is made from a number of ...

A protective options strategy in which a written call and a long put are taken against a previously.

Lying nearly head to wind and stopped, and maintaining this position by trimming sail or working engines.

Navigation rules governing waters outside designated demarcation zones

Statement on the condition of the vessel. The sufficiency of a vessel in materials, construction, equipment, crew and outfit for the trade in which it is employed. Any sort of disrepair to the vessel by which the cargo may suffer, overloading, untrained o ...

A measurement. Parts per million

The amount of precipitation falling in one day, or other specified period, that is likely to be equalled or exceeded in any given place only once in a century. That is, a precipitation amount that has a return period of 100 years.

A lift truck fitted with lifting attachments operating to one side for handling containers.

A material (such as oil) used between moving parts of machinery to make the surfaces slippery and reduce friction.

A transaction which leads to a chargeable gain and which in turn promotes the issuing of a.

Machines in which axial vanes slide radially in an eccentrically mounted rotor.

The renting of a boat

An instrument with a movable arm to plot a course on a chart