- Industria: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
- Number of blossaries: 1
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
An agency of convection. In heat transfer, a surface designed to transfer its heat to a surrounding fluid largely or wholly by convection. The heated fluid may be moved mechanically or by gravity (gravity convector). Such a surface may or may not be enclosed or concealed.
Industry:Energy
Favored name for centigrade scale, with freezing points and boiling points of water at 0 degrees and 100 degrees, respectively.
Industry:Energy
The conversion of carbonaceous material into gas or the extraction of gas from another fuel.
Industry:Energy
The products of combustion and excess air before the draft hood or draft regulator consisting principally of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Industry:Energy
Useful asset lives (by general categories) as determined and allowed for income tax depreciation charges by The Internal Revenue Service.
Industry:Energy
A capacity allocation method under which the first shipper to have requested service shall be the first to be offered such service. The pipeline is only obligated to provide service to a particular customer to the extent capacity is available.
Industry:Energy
A group of organic chemical compounds containing an SH group having distinctive odors in small concentrations is often added to natural or LP gases to warn of leaks. Compare ODORANT.
Industry:Energy
A purchase agreement where the supplier (producer) agrees to supply a specified volume of natural gas over a specified period of time and warrants that it has sufficient reserves to meet its commitments over the life of the contract.
Industry:Energy
