- 行业: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
A colorless hydrocarbon gas of slight odor having a gross heating value of 1,604 Btu per cubic foot and a specific gravity of 0.9740. It is usually present in manufactured gas, constituting one of its elements.
Industry:Energy
A liquid-collecting trap at the low point in a customer's gas service piping when the piping cannot be sloped back to the distribution main. Compare DRIP.
Industry:Energy
A separate panel or panels interposed between heating surfaces and adjacent objects to reduce heat transmission by radiation.
Industry:Energy
An energy system which produces heat first for process use and electricity as a by-product.
Industry:Energy
Gas reserves under contract to an interstate pipeline company and hence subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission and wellhead price controls under the NGA of 1938. The NGPA of 1978 extended the Commission's jurisdiction for wellhead pricing to essentially all gas but provided for phasing out wellhead price controls over time for certain gas.
Industry:Energy
Procedure used by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to gather information on a specified industry issue. Normally calls for comments from all interested parties and in some cases, reply comments and/or public hearings.
Industry:Energy
The effect of gas pressure in an oil well which causes the oil to flow from the well. May be either natural or artificially induced by injecting gas into the hole under pressure. Below the surface, gas intermixes with the oil, lightens the oil column, and allows it to flow.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of the weight average molecular weight (Mw) to the number average molecular weight (Mn) gives an indication of the distribution.
Industry:Energy
