- Industri: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Transportation, by a company, of gas quantities belonging to another party, for which the company charges a fee.
Industry:Energy
A bellows inside a displacement type gas meter. Also, a membrane separating two different pressure areas within a control valve or regulator.
Industry:Energy
Equipment installed for the purpose of preventing the pressure on a pipeline or distribution system to which it is connected from exceeding the maximum allowable operating pressure by venting gas to the atmosphere whenever the pressure exceeds this valve.
Industry:Energy
The concentration of gas load for a given area expressed as gas volume per unit of time and per unit of area.
Industry:Energy
The process of cooling a compressed air or gas immediately after compression.
Industry:Energy
A geographical area. A geological zone, however, means an interval of strata of the geologic column that has distinguishing characteristics from surrounding strata. Also, a space or group of spaces within a building with heating and/or cooling requirements sufficiently similar so that comfort conditions can be maintained by a single controlling device.
Industry:Energy
A property of ions or of radicals determining the number of ions with which they can combine in chemical reactions.
Industry:Energy
Equipment or device that extracts or drives out vapors from liquid solutions or gases. Also, equipment that is part of refrigerating systems to permit liquid refrigerants to evaporate in the process of absorbing heat.
Industry:Energy
The concept that the value of a utility service to a consumer cannot be greater than the cost of an equally satisfactory substitute service or the consumer will switch to the substitute.
Industry:Energy
The process of cutting out a portion of a weld in a pipeline for testing as to acceptability.
Industry:Energy
