- 行业: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
- Number of blossaries: 1
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Any service provided by a pipeline company to assist its customers in smoothing the fluctuations in their demand for gas.
Industry:Energy
In general, resistance to flow; that property of semi-fluids and gases by virtue of which they resist an instantaneous change of shape or arrangement of molecules.
Industry:Energy
The internal pressure at which pipe or fitting will, most likely, fail after 100,000 hours (11.43 years).
Industry:Energy
The tensile stress necessary to cause failure in a short-time test. It is performed by pulling a specimen of specified dimension at a specified rate.
Industry:Energy
A DSM programme that affects the design and construction of new buildings and facilities.
Industry:Energy
A piece of equipment for separating one substance from another when they are intimately mixed, such as removing oil from water, oil from gas, ash from flue gas, or tramp iron from coal.
Industry:Energy
A valve which controls the gas supply to the main burner manifold.
Industry:Energy
Mandated restrictions on sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from power plants.
Industry:Energy
The actual cost of land, buildings, pipelines and other plant items (in the Code of Federal Regulations) "to the person first devoting it to public service." (Distinguished from the cost to a subsequent owner of acquiring such property after it is already "devoted to public service"). In ratemaking a rate base developed on original cost will not include the difference between the pipeline's acquisition cost and the original cost of facilities acquired. See HISTORICAL COST.
Industry:Energy
