- 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.
Gauge pressure plus barometric pressure. Absolute pressure can be zero only in a perfect vacuum.
Industry:Energy
The extraction of a gaseous substance from an atmosphere by liquid or solid material.
Industry:Energy
An ingredient used in the formulation of some plastics, to assist in maintaining the physical and chemical properties of the compounded materials at their initial values throughout the processing and service life of the material.
Industry:Energy
Rapid chemical reaction of oxygen with fuel accompanied by the production of heat, or heat and light.
Industry:Energy
The extraction of one or more components from a mixture of gases when gases and liquids are brought into contact. The assimilation or extraction process causes (or is accompanied by) a physical or chemical change, or both, in the sorbent material. Compare ADSORPTION.
Industry:Energy
A condition wherein components of a piping system and/or different specific materials can be joined together to form satisfactory joints.
Industry:Energy
A conditional approval issued by the FERC that reviews and authorizes all the terms and conditions of a proposed construction project, except the environmental aspects. A type of semi-certificate approval devised by the Commission to speed construction. Once the preliminary determination is issued, sponsors can line up financing and begin right-of-way acquisition and be ready to go when the lengthy environmental process is completed and they receive unconditional certificate authorization.
Industry:Energy
