- 行业: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
The rate charged a distribution company by its supplier(s). It refers to the cost of the gas at the point at which the distribution utility takes title to the gas.
Industry:Energy
When a subsidiary company has a parent company that provides consolidated financing and other services that affect the subsidiary's capital structure, the subsidiary typically must prepare a hypothetical capital structure for use in a rate case filing.
Industry:Energy
A chemical agent which slows or reduces chemical action. Inhibitors are used principally in liquid coolants to reduce corrosion of metal parts of the system and in well drilling fluids to reduce corrosion of metals in piping of equipment used in well drilling operations.
Industry:Energy
A heating unit which transfers heat by radiation to objects within visible range and by conduction to the surrounding air which, in turn, is circulated by natural convection; a so-called radiator is also a convector, but the term radiator has been established by long usage.
Industry:Energy
A refrigerating system in which the cooling effect results from expansion of a refrigerant after mechanical compression by either centrifugal or reciprocating compressors.
Industry:Energy
The decrease of stress with respect to time in a piece of plastic that is subject to an external load at constant deformation.
Industry:Energy
The rate design step that allocates the demand and commodity costs of the various functions to the customer classes. See COST OF SERVICE.
Industry:Energy
A chemical compound composed solely of carbon and hydrogen. The compounds having a small number of carbon and hydrogen atoms in their molecules are usually gaseous; those with a larger number of atoms are liquid, and the compounds with the largest number of atoms are solid.
Industry:Energy
A heat-treating process in which carbon is introduced into a solid iron-base alloy by heating above the transformation temperature range while in contact with a carbonaceous material which may be a solid, liquid, or gas. Carburizing is frequently followed by quenching to produce a hardened case.
Industry:Energy
