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Encyclopedia of Marine and Energy Technology

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marine

Mechanically-controlled fuel injection. Each engine cylinder has its own fuel injection pump and all the fuel is fed directly into the cylinder.

marine

Air shuttle trailer, A trailer designed by Wallenius Wilhelmsen for transport of fully assembled railcars.

marine

The trailing suction hopper dredger VASCO DA GAMA is designed to recover sand from the sea, haul it for long distances and place it ashore.

marine

A ship which transports railway carriages and passengers in a shuttle service between two particular terminals.

marine

A large installation used on board train ferries to enable train transport on two decks.

marine

A vessel operating without a fixed itinerary or schedule or charter contract.

energy

In organic chemistry, transesterification is the process of exchanging the organic group R″ of an ester with the organic group R′ of an alcohol as is used in the production of biodiesel.

energy

A switch used to transfer an electrical load from one source to another. Utilised when a source has failed and can include manual or automatic switching.

energy

A passive electrical device that transfers electrical energy from one electrical circuit to another, or multiple circuits.

energy

Passive mechanical systems designed to depressurize the transformer a few milliseconds after the occurrence of an electrical fault. Those system prevent any fire by avoiding transformer tank rupture and subsequent fire damages.

energy

Transformer oil or insulating oil is an oil that is stable at high temperatures and has excellent electrical insulating properties. Its functions are to insulate, suppress corona discharge and arcing, and to serve as a coolant.

energy

A transient event is a short-lived burst of energy in a system caused by a sudden change of state.

energy

A transient response is the response of a system to a change from an equilibrium or a steady state.

energy

A system is said to be transient or in a transient state when a process variable or variables have been changed and the system has not yet reached a steady state.The time taken for the circuit to change from one steady state to another steady state is called the transient time.

energy

Water depths from 30 to 60 meters.

marine

Hydraulically raised and lowered trailer which can slide through the center of a wheel-lesscassette to load and discharge it from the vessel

marine

The ratio of delivered power to shaft power.

energy

The interconnecting lines between power plants and substations that carry high voltage electricity.

energy

In the electric power industry, a transmission service request is an application requesting a transmission-owning utility to allocate physical capacity in the form of transmission service rights for the transmission of electric power.

energy

A transmission substation connects two or more transmission lines.