- 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.
The sum of two or more demands which occur in the same demand interval.
Industry:Energy
A discontinuity or break in the anticorrosion protective coating on pipe, tubing, or fitting that leaves the bare metal exposed to corrosive processes.
Industry:Energy
A number which indicates interchangeability of fuel gases and is obtained by dividing the heating value of a gas by the square root of its specific gravity.
Industry:Energy
A unit consisting of a burner together with associated thermostat and safety controls, which can be used to convert heating equipment from one fuel to another.
Industry:Energy
Certificates of indebtedness representing long-term borrowing of capital funds, the terms of which contain an indenture pledging the property as security for the loan and providing for the appointment of a trustee to represent the bondholders. If the lien of the mortgage is limited to specific property owned at the time the mortgage was created and to replacements thereof, the mortgage is described as "closed." If the lien extends to "after acquired" property which may be used as the basis for issuance of additional bonds under the terms and provisions of the indenture, the mortgage is referred to as an "open-end" mortgage.
Industry:Energy
Leakage surveys made by driving or boring holes at regular intervals along the route of an underground gas pipe and testing the atmosphere in the holes with a combustible gas detector or other suitable device.
Industry:Energy
That volume of gas owned by another company received into and transported through any part of the transmission or distribution system under a transportation tariff.
Industry:Energy
The maximum quantity of gas that can be moved through a pipeline system at any given time based on existing service conditions such as available horsepower, pipeline diameter(s), maintenance schedules, regional demand for natural gas, etc.
Industry:Energy
The transmission of knowledge, skills, attitudes, motivations, etc., concerning the safety requirements of operations, processes, environments, etc., to workers, supervisors, managers, and others. The objective of safety education and training is favourable behaviour change.
Industry:Energy
A depreciation system effective in the year 1971, based on broad industry class of assets which can provide faster capital cost recovery through depreciation by using shorter useful lives, more advantageous first year convention and more flexibility for changing depreciation methods as well as administrative simplification.
Industry:Energy
