Federal Acquisition Regulations.

The process of decomposing biomass with anaerobic bacteria to produce biogas.

One man Bridge Operation

Guaranteed Safe Berth

A chemical change in a substance that results from the passage of an electric current through an electrolyte. The production of commercial hydrogen by separating the elements of water, hydrogen, and oxygen, by charging the water with an electrical current ...

The measurement around the body of a ship. The half girth is taken from the center line of the keel to the upper deck beam end.

Quantity of gas actually compressed and delivered to the discharge system at rated speed of the machine and under rated pressure conditions.

Military Assistance Program.

The removal of heat from a gas after compression is completed.

The downward flux of atmospheric radiation passing through a given level surface, usually taken as the earth's surface. This result of infrared (long-wave) absorption and reemission by the atmosphere is the principal factor in the greenhouse effect.

personal computer

Space between the floor of holds and the bottom of the ship.

Satellite Navigation

An instrument which records the duration of sunshine and gives a quantitative measure of the amount of sunshine by the action of the sun's rays upon blueprint paper. A type of sunshine recorder.

A fan mounted on an attic wall used to exhaust warm attic air to the outside.

Abbreviation for binary digit. The smallest unit of information, equal to one binary decision, i.e. 1/0, on/off, yes/no.

Total Allowable Level of Foreign Fishing

United States Department of Agriculture

See principal stress (normal).

Vapour pressure