- Branche: 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 delivery of natural gas by a pipeline to a shipper or for a shipper's account.
Industry:Energy
The rate of return that a regulatory commission allows on a rate base in establishing just and reasonable rates for a utility. It is usually based on the composite cost of financing rate base from debt, preferred stock, and common equity. See RATE OF RETURN.
Industry:Energy
When the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) wherein it served notice of its intention to totally restructure the natural gas industry, the NOPR was referred to as the "Mega" NOPR because of its scope.
Industry:Energy
A chemical process using heat in presence of a catalyst to break down a substance into desired components, such as in the reforming of natural gas or light oils into lower Btu fuel gas.
Industry:Energy
A hole dug to allow room for workmen to make a repair or connection in buried pipe, such as caulking bell-and-spigot pipe or welding steel pipe. In the broad sense, any hole other than a continuous trench opened for working on a buried facility.
Industry:Energy
A relief device activated by pressure and/or temperatures, commonly used on water heaters. (P and T relief valves).
Industry:Energy
An assembly of corrugated stainless steel tubing, distribution manifold(s), tube connection fittings, and tube shielding devices, intended for field assembly and installation in residential or commercial buildings to distribute fuel gas to gas utilization equipment within the building. The piping system may also include a gas pressure regulator(s), a shutoff valve(s), and other approved devices or components.
Industry:Energy
Furnaces that have a combustion blower, which may be located either upstream or downstream from the heat exchangers. If the blower is located upstream, blowing the combustion air into the heat exchangers, the system is called a forced-draft system. If the blower is downstream, the arrangement is called an induced-draft system. Power combustion systems have been commonly used with outdoor furnaces in the past; however, more indoor furnaces are being designed using this concept.
Industry:Energy
Plastics based on polymers made with propylene as essentially the sole monomer.
Industry:Energy
