- 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.
Any plant which performs one of the following functions: removing liquefiable hydrocarbons from wet gas or casinghead gas (gas processing); removing undesirable gaseous and particulate elements from natural gas (gas treatment); removing water or moisture from the gas stream (dehydration). Also, the original cost of property, plant and equipment owned and used by the utility in its gas operations and having an expectation of life in service of more than one year from the date of installation.
Industry:Energy
In DSM, an option which could be implemented for which equipment has been developed and tested and is available in the current marketplace, or will be in the future.
Industry:Energy
Securities which are convertible into other classes of securities (usually common stock) of the same corporation at the option of the security holder, but only in accordance with prescribed conditions.
Industry:Energy
Storage facilities, or portion of storage facilities, which is used by the pipeline to store gas for its own use, to meet the peak day requirements of its sales customers and to provide flexibility on its system. See CONTRACT STORAGE.
Industry:Energy
The integrating pressure-and-temperature instrument registers, on a counter, the total quantity of gas passed through the meter, reduced to standard cubic feet at a definite base pressure and base temperature. Each increment of volume is multiplied by a temperature-factor corresponding to the line-temperature and base-temperature. It is then multiplied by the pressure-multiplier corresponding to the line pressure and base pressure. The product is totaled on a counter index. A supplementary index is furnished which reads the total quantity passed at line conditions.
Industry:Energy
The tendency of a heated gas to rise in a vertical passage as in a chimney, small enclosure, or stairwell.
Industry:Energy
A DSM programme aimed at reducing overall consumption, often without regard for the timing of the program-induced savings. Such savings are generally achieved by substituting technically more efficient equipment to produce the same level of end-use services with less energy.
Industry:Energy
A person, business entity, or public body that is granted the right to participate in a rate case or hearing.
Industry:Energy
A valve of the pierced plug and barrel type provided with means for maintaining a lubricant between the bearing surfaces. It is designed so that the lapped bearing surfaces can be lubricated and the lubricant level maintained without removing the valve from service.
Industry:Energy
Comprehensive collection of DSM resources, both viable and non-viable, that are available, both currently and in the future to the utility.
Industry:Energy
