Abbreviation for "Forty-Foot Equivalent Units." Refers to container size standard of forty feet. Two twenty-foot containers or TEU's equal one FEU.

Forty Foot Equivalent Units (Containers).

A law of chemistry and physics: the rate of diffusion of one substance in another is proportional to the negative gradient of the concentration of the first substance.

A small rail on tables and counters used to keep objects from sliding off when the vessel rolls and pitches.

A double block where the two sheaves lie in a plane one below the other, rather than alongside each other.

A sailor's paradise where amusements were plentiful, and the women were accommodating.

A partially raised deck over the engine and boiler rooms, always around the smokestack, to let the hot air and fumes escape.

A day for general ship cleaning.

Ice pack whose limits cannot be seen from ship.

A rail around the mast or on the bulwarks with holes for belaying pins to which lines or halyards are attached.

The semi-circular steel coupling device mounted on a tractor which engages and locks with a chassis semi-trailer.

An ornamental carved and painted figure on the stem of the vessel.

A device that removes solid contaminants, such as dirt or metal particles, from a liquid or gas (air is a gas), or that separates one liquid from another, or a liquid from a gas. The term filter describes the complete unit ... housing, filter element, int ...

A filtering unit for vented enclosures installed to prevent dirt and foreign matter from entering the enclosure. Also prevents oil loss by retaining oil droplets and draining the oil back to the sump.

A filter unit that combines three principles to filter out oil aerosols: 1) Direct interception - A sieving action, 2) Inertial impaction - Collision with filter media fibers, 3) Diffusion -Particles travel in a spiral motion, presenting an effective fron ...

The ability of a filter to remove specified test contaminants under specified test conditions from a specific test fluid, air, gas or liquid. Expressed as a percentage of the quantity of test contaminant introduced into the inlet of the filter test system

The porous device which perform the actual process of filtration.

An end closure for the filter case or bowl that contains one or more ports.

Something that covers or protects the filter assembly.

Inlet and outlet connections are located at the same level on opposite sides of the filter or other device installed on the pipeline.