- 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.
That part of the total cost of service which must be recovered through use of a commodity rate; i.e., a rate for each Mcf of gas sold. Revenue from a commodity rate varies with throughput.
Industry:Energy
The lowest temperature at which the vapours arising from a liquid surface can be ignited by an open flame.
Industry:Energy
The time required for the cumulative operational saving of a DSM (or other) option to equal the investment cost of that option.
Industry:Energy
A controlled process of reacting coal, steam, and oxygen under pressure and elevated temperature. The crude gas is purified and has a low heating value. Subsequent catalytic upgrading can be employed to produce high-Btu pipeline grade gas.
Industry:Energy
A mechanism designed to recover Order No.500 take-or-pay buyout and buydown costs. See EQUITABLE SHARING MECHANISM.
Industry:Energy
A steel cable or cables strung between two supports and sagged to the point of minimum tension for a given evenly distributed load. Used to support a heavy electrical cable, gas main or other load which is not designed to be self-supporting and is too heavy to be carried by a normal messenger wire strung with minimum sag.
Industry:Energy
An organisation sponsored by a number of U.S. gas companies to investigate new sources of supply and new uses (applications) for natural gas.
Industry:Energy
Historically, a combination of warm-air heating and radiator heating; the term is also used for other combinations such as hot water-steam, steam-warm air, as well as gas heat-electric cooling.
Industry:Energy
Removal of impurities from a gas or vapour by passing the gas through water or other liquid which retains or dissolves the impurity.
Industry:Energy
Series of numbers preferentially selected for standardisation purposes. They are defined in "American National Standard Preferred Numbers, ANSI Z17.1-1958."
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