In the futures market the price of a contract for future delivery of a commodity usually trades.

Binary cycle systems can be used with liquids at temperatures less than 350 F (177 C). In these systems, the hot geothermal liquid vaporizes a secondary working fluid, which then drives a turbine.

Vertical Centre of Buoyancy

An instrument for measuring the pressure of the atmosphere. The two principle types are aneroid and mercurial.

Integrated bridge control system

(1) A cathode, usuully corrugated to give variable current densities, that is plated at low current densities to preferentially remove impurities from a plating solution. (2) A substitute cathode that is used during adjustment of operating conditions.

Peru (Flag)

Facility Engineering Management Support System.

General Agreement on Trade in Services

Corrective Action Request.

A heat treatment, whether accidental, intentional, or incidental (as during welding), that causes precipitation of constituents at grain boundaries, often causing the alloy to become susceptible to intergranular corrosion or intergranular stress-corrosion ...

(Delivered At Frontier) (...Named Place):A Term of Sale which means the sellers fulfill their obligation to deliver when the goods have been made available, cleared for export, at the named point and placed at the frontier, but before the customs Terms of ...

Inmarsat Mobile Number

Independent Tank, Center

Joint Industry Project

Department of Trade and Industry (UK)

Sometimes called a pulsation damper this is a small receiver fitted on the inlet or discharge of a reciprocating compressor. The device is designed to remove the resonance from the compressor thereby reducing noise.

Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit (Container)

Area of a computer or other device where various logic and control elements are interconnected. Often a printed circuit board into which other circuit boards plug at right angles.

See river basin.