- 行业: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
A heat exchanger in which heat generated in the combustion chamber of the device is transferred directly through walls of the heat exchanger to the heating medium such as air, steam, or water, held in close contact with the combustion-chamber walls. It is a self-contained combustion and heat-transfer device, hence a direct heat-transfer device.
Industry:Energy
A rate schedule to move someone else's gas on a transmission or distribution system. Most transmission companies have a number of transportation rate schedules based on mileage, zones, firm or interruptible, and so on.
Industry:Energy
An allocation method used to allocate demand costs to customer classes based on peak day.
Industry:Energy
Flow of heat by radiation, convection, or conduction. This term is sometimes used to mean rate of heat transfer. See CONVECTION; CONDUCTION; RADIATION.
Industry:Energy
Permission to conduct geological and geophysical activity only, without the option to acquire lease acreage.
Industry:Energy
The quantity of heat transferred through a unit area of a material in a unit time per unit of temperature difference between the two sides of the material.
Industry:Energy
Voids in a reservoir rock available for storage of fluids. Measured in percent of rock volume.
Industry:Energy
A central heating and/or cooling system which is arranged so that different temperatures can be maintained in two or more areas of the building being heated or cooled or simultaneously heated or cooled.
Industry:Energy
A heat exchanger which encloses or contains a heating medium such as air, steam, or water, the heat from which is transferred to another heating medium separately contained in close contact with or directed through the heat exchanger. It is an indirect heat-transfer device.
Industry:Energy
