- 行业: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
The network of distribution piping to which customers' service lines are attached. generally, large pipes are laid in principal streets with smaller laterals extending along side streets and connected at their ends to form a grid; sometimes laterals are brought to dead ends. compare with distribution, this section.
Industry:Energy
The voltage that will rupture or puncture the material when placed between electrodes of a given size.
Industry:Energy
(1) Polarization of anode, that is, the decrease in the initial anode potential resulting from current flow effects at or near the anode surface. The potential becomes more noble (more positive) because of anodic polarization. (2) That portion of the cell polarization occurring at the anode.
Industry:Energy
A gas-proof, inflatable bag which can be inserted in a gas pipe and inflated to seal off the flow of the gas.
Industry:Energy
A process control test for PVC pipe which indicates how well the rigid vinyl compound has been fused together in the extruder. Improperly fused pipe will tend to flake when placed in anhydrous acetone.
Industry:Energy
American Standards Association. Superseded by the American National Standards Institute. See ANSI.
Industry:Energy
Energy Factor (EF) - A measure of the overall efficiency of a water heater based on its recovery efficiency, standby loss and energy input as set out in the standardized Department of Energy test procedures.
Industry:Energy
