- 行业: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
- Number of blossaries: 1
- Company Profile:
The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Gas burners that are sealed to prevent spillovers from reaching the burner box.
Industry:Energy
Plastics made by combining polyvinylchloride with colorants, fillers, plasticizers, stabilizers, lubricants, other polymers, and other compounding ingredients. Not all of these modifiers are used in pipe compounds.
Industry:Energy
The density of oil compared to the density of water, i.e., the specific gravity of the oil. (Measured in degrees by API, American Petroleum Institute). Oil with a low number is less valuable than with a high number.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of a pipeline's system supply reserves to annual sales expected, stated in years. This ratio is often used to help determine a pipeline's rate of return.
Industry:Energy
Wholesale electric producer unaffiliated with the franchised utility in the area in which it is selling power.
Industry:Energy
A circuit classified as a safety-control circuit is one involving one or more safety controls in which failure due to grounding, opening, or shorting of any part of the circuit can cause unsafe operation of the valve or the controlled equipment.
Industry:Energy
A hydrocarbon of the same chemical formula as butane but different molecular structure, resulting in different physical properties, notably lower boiling point. Gross heating value 3261 Btu/cu. ft. gas.
Industry:Energy
A resin made by the polymerization of any member of the ethylene series having but one double bond with the general formula CnH2n, e.g., ethylene, propene, etc.
Industry:Energy
An attachment for a burner head which forms a burner port modified for a specific application. Also, a generic term that refers to the ultimate point of consumption for natural gas.
Industry:Energy
