An arrangement of elements interconnected and interacting in order to maintain, or to affect in a prescribed manner...
A valve that regulates the fluid flow. It is usually operated remotely as the regulating unit of an automatic control...
To stop the ripening process and to preserve the quality of fruit, vegetables, flowers or other perishable goods...
A collective description for paints based on binders such as bitumen, alkyds and oils.
A circuit that converts AC to DC or from DC to AC or acts as AC frequency changer. Modern electric drive systems...
The entire system for delivering bulk cargo from the shore stockpile or receiving point to the ship.
A group of vessels sailing together, e.g. through a canal or ice.
A heat exchanger where hot air or liquid is cooled by seawater or by fresh water. Coolers fall into two groups...
A vessel, other than a rescue unit, designated to coordinate surface search and rescue operation within a specified...
A ductile metal, which has good electrical conductivity and is widely used in electrical equipment. It has a high...
Stainless steel sandwich panels developed by MacGREGOR company for fixed and hoistable car decks on ferries and...
A joint between two elements located approximately at right angles in the form of L.
A shaped seal unit to go around right-angled or compound corners.
The process of deterioration of metals and their properties, following a reaction with surrounding environment. Corrosion...
- Excessive corrosion – An extent of corrosion that exceeds the allowable corrosion.
The process in which a metal fractures prematurely in a transcrystalline manner under conditions of simultaneous...
A preventive agent, which is capable of stopping or retarding a chemical reaction; to be useful, it must be effective...
A full hard coating or full hard coating supplemented by cathodic protection.
Rate at which the corrosion proceeds. It is the thickness of metal lost during one year, on one side of the surface...
Fluids causing damage by coming into contact with living tissues, the vessel or its cargo, when escaped from their...