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AHTS SIEM PEARL

marine

Anchor Handling, Tug, Supply Vessel SIEM PEARL, based on Wärtsilä Ship Design’s VS491 CD design, was delivered in 2009 by Kleven Yard in Ulsteinvik (Norway).

Aids to navigation

marine

Charted marks such as buoys, beacons, lights, radio beacons and the like.

Aids to navigation service and buoy laying vessel RELUME

marine

According to HSB International September 2004. The sophisticated light tender RELUME was built by the Dutch shipbuilding group Damen for Middle East Navigation Aids Service (MENAS)...

Aids to navigation service vessel

marine

The vessel specially equipped to maintain and repair navigation buoys, beacons, automatic lighthouses, etc.

Air basin

energy

An air basin is an area within a ring or partial ring of mountains that in the absence of winds holds air and smog within the area.

Air compressor

energy

A pneumatic device for producing air for higher pressure work, compressed air is fed to a pressure vessel where it will be stored until used.

Air conditioning

energy

Air conditioning is the process of removing heat and controlling the humidity of the air within a building or vehicle, in order to achieve a more comfortable interior environment.

Air conditioning system

marine

A typical recirculating system contains a fan to produce the airflow through the system, a cooling coil where the heat from the air is transferred to the cooling medium...

Air cooler cleaning system

marine

The airside of the scavenge air cooler is cleaned by a chemical fluid injected into a spray pipe arrangement. Polluted cleaning agent returns through a filter, to the chemical cleaning tank.

Air cooler, charge air cooler

marine

A heat exchanger used to cool and, therefore, increase the specific density of air prior to combustion in an engine.

Air cooling

energy

Air cooling is a method of dissipating heat.

Air cushion vehicle (ACV), hovercraft

marine

A craft with the whole or a significant part of its weight supported, whether at rest or in motion, by a continuously generated cushion of air with its effectiveness dependent on the proximity of the surface over which the craft operates.

Air density

energy

The density of air or atmospheric density is the mass per unit volume of Earth's atmosphere.

Air draft

marine

The vertical distance from the waterline to the highest fixed part of a vessel.

Air dryer

marine

A unit used to remove moisture from control air. It may use a refrigerant drier or a desiccant.

Air duct

marine

Thin-walled piping or ducting (circular or rectangular) used exclusively to conduct air.

Air filter

energy

A particulate air filter is a device composed of fibrous, or porous materials which removes solid particulates such as dust, pollen, mold, and bacteria from the air.

Air gun

marine

Air guns are devices that rapidly release compressed air into water creating the effect of explosion. To provide sufficient energy for geophysical surveys, compressors generating extremely high pressures are required.

Air handler

energy

An air handler, or air handling unit, is a device used to regulate and circulate air as part of a heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system.

Air heater

marine

A heat exchanger, which uses steam, water or electricity to increase the air temperature.

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