- 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.
A single gas appliance that provides both space heating and domestic hot water. These systems are designed primarily for use as a forced air heating system, but can also be adapted for new hydronic baseboard installations.
Industry:Energy
An incentive tax credit applying to a variety of more costly energy production including, for natural gas, coalbed methane, tight sands, and Devonian shale production.
Industry:Energy
Gas with a heating value of less than 250 Btu's per cubic foot. Typically heating values fall between 120 and 180 Btu's per cubic foot.
Industry:Energy
Pump that delivers a constant volume of fluid per cycle of operation at whatever pressure is necessary, within the design limits of the mechanism of the pump.
Industry:Energy
The evaluation of the risk of a system not adequately meeting the load demand of firm customers under normal operating conditions. It is based upon the evaluation of supply and capacity reliabilities and the uncertainty of demand forecast, weather variability, and other uncertainties.
Industry:Energy
The relative rates of diffusion of gases under the same conditions are inversely proportional to the square roots of the density of those gases.
Industry:Energy
A component of a auxiliary device designed to indicate on a scale or chart, or both, the volume of gas passing through a meter in relation to time, temperature, pressure, or any combination thereof.
Industry:Energy
A mass of metal, usually scrap metal, used as an anode when a rectifier is used in cathodic protection. Also, the magnesium and aluminum anodes used in cathodic protection but which do not require an outside impressed voltage.
Industry:Energy
An independent office reporting to the Secretary of Transportation of the United States Government, charged with enforcing the Pipeline Safety Act. MTB, among other functions, receives reports of safety-related incidents from gas system operators and periodically issues revisions and interpretations to the Minimum Federal Safety Standard (49 CFR 192).
Industry:Energy
