- 行业: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
A metre using the differential pressure across an orifice plate as a basis for determining volume flowing through the meter. Ordinarily, the differential pressure is charted.
Industry:Energy
A substance consisting of molecules characterised by the repetition (neglecting ends, branch junctions and other minor irregularities) of one or more types of monomeric units. Polymers may be formed by polymerization (addition polymer) or polycondensation (condensation polymer). When two or more monomers are involved, the product is called a copolymer.
Industry:Energy
Any area in which the company feels that gas can be sold in the public convenience and necessity to the benefit of the company and stockholders.
Industry:Energy
In a boiler, the excessive carry-over of fine water particles with the steam due to insufficient steam space, faulty boiler design, or faulty operating conditions. Compare FOAMING.
Industry:Energy
Return of investment through inclusion in cost of service (and rates) of a pro rata part of the cost of property, calculated to spread the total investment cost over a certain period of time or number of units that measure the useful life of the investment. Depreciation (in the Code of Federal Regulations) is to reimburse the company for "...the loss in service value not restored by current maintenance, incurred in connexion with the consumption or prospective retirement of gas plant in the course of service from causes which are known to be in current operation and against which the utility is not protected by insurance. Among the causes to be given consideration are wear and tear, decay, action of the elements, inadequacy, obsolescence, changes in the art, changes in demand and requirements of public authorities, and, in the case of a natural gas company, the exhaustion of natural resources."
Industry:Energy
Sleeve bearings of porous metal which depend solely on the porosity of the metal for oil storage.
Industry:Energy
The sum of the capacities or ratings of the gas-consuming apparatus connected to a supplying system or any part of the system under consideration.
Industry:Energy
A tube tapered down to a lesser diameter and then expanding gradually to its original diameter. Pressure-measuring taps are provided at the entrance and at the constricted throat for determining pressure differential through the tube used for metering.
Industry:Energy
