- 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.
A chemical substance or combination of substances that prevents or reduces the rate of the anodic or oxidation reaction by a physical, physio-chemical or chemical action.
Industry:Energy
A housing around an underground valve to allow access to the valve and to protect the valve from mechanical damage or the effects of weather.
Industry:Energy
A request for a physical quantity of gas under a specific purchase, sales or transportation agreement or for all contracts at a specific point. A nomination will continue for specified number of days or until superseded by another service request for the same contract.
Industry:Energy
An atmosphere containing oxygen at a concentration of less than 19.5% by volume and is not safe for breathing.
Industry:Energy
Plastics containing polymers and/or blends of polymers, in which the minimum butadiene content is 6%, the minimum acrylonitrile content is 15%, the minimum styrene and/or substituted content is 15%, and the maximum content of all other monomers is not more than 5%, and lubricants, stabilizers, and colorants.
Industry:Energy
The demand which is used to determine demand charges in accordance with the provisions of a rate schedule or contract. It does not necessarily coincide with the actual measured demand of the billing period.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of (a) income before interest charges, adjusted to exclude income taxes, to (b) interest charges (principally interest on long-term debt). Used as a measure of the interest coverage or safety.
Industry:Energy
Where fuel to the main burner is turned on only by hand and ignited under supervision.
Industry:Energy
A hydraulic device operated by pump pressure for the purpose of cleaning fluid out of the pits and tanks on a rotary drilling location.
Industry:Energy
A requirement that gas entering a pipeline for transportation (receipts) must equal the amount leaving the pipeline (deliveries). This requirement is enforced by levying penalties on any difference between receipts and deliveries on an hourly, daily and monthly basis.
Industry:Energy
