- 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 self-contained, vented, or unvented heater used to convert the combustion energy to radiant energy, a substantial portion of which is in the infra-red spectrum, for the purpose of direct heat transfer.
Industry:Energy
An energy efficient mortgage, often funded by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, VA or FHA, that recognises the energy efficiency of a home and allows the lender to stretch the
Industry:Energy
Gas purchased by gas distributors from gas pipelines. The term is usually used by natural gas distributors to distinguish gas they purchased from pipelines from gas they purchased directly from producers and had transported.
Industry:Energy
Pressure in excess of a perfect vacuum. Absolute pressure is obtained by algebraically adding gauge pressure to atmosphere pressure. Pressures reported in "Atmospheres" are understood to be absolute. Absolute pressure must be used in equations of state and in all gas-law calculations. Gauge pressures below atmospheric pressure are called "vacuum."
Industry:Energy
The division of the U.S. Department of Energy that regulates imports and exports of natural gas.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of the useful heat output to the heat input, multiplied by 100 and expressed in percent.
Industry:Energy
A coil of pipe or tubing used as a heat exchanger to cool material inside or outside the coil by means of colder material passing over or through the coil respectively.
Industry:Energy
A liquid similar to conventional crude oil but obtained from oil shale by conversion of organic matter (kerogen) in oil shale.
Industry:Energy
A self-contained, vented, or unvented, gas-fired air heater used only to heat air from the outside to replace air which is leaking, being vented, or being discharged from a heated building. May be direct-fired or indirect-fired.
Industry:Energy
An energy quantity of one quadrillion Btu, which is approximately the energy equivalent contained in one trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
Industry:Energy
