- 업종: 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 sum of the capacities or ratings of the gas-consuming apparatus connected to a supplying system or any part of the system under consideration.
Industry:Energy
A daily or monthly penalty assessed on the difference between volumes tendered and volumes received by the shipper. The purpose of balancing penalties is to prevent a shipper from tying up storage and line pack with excess deliveries of transportation gas, or from depleting storage and line pack by taking more gas off the system than it delivers, both of which disrupt other sales and transportation services.
Industry:Energy
A meter using the rate of rotation of a rotor in the gas stream to measure flow rate.
Industry:Energy
Any burner nozzle with built-in features to hold the flame close to the burner at high mixture pressure or high velocities.
Industry:Energy
In a compressor or engine, the water used for cooling the cylinder head and/or walls.
Industry:Energy
Revenue from the sale of gas to a class of service, exclusive of forfeited discounts and penalties, divided by the corresponding number of units sold. Units may be therms, Btu's, or cubic feet.
Industry:Energy
Small diameter hole made in the ground in the vicinity of gas piping for the purpose of extracting a sample of the ground atmosphere for analysis such as when searching for leaks.
Industry:Energy
The heat released when a substance is completely burned in oxygen. Compare HEATING VALUE.
Industry:Energy
The sum of the capitalization, long-term debt due within one year, and short-term debt outstanding at the end of each month, for a period of time (usually 12 months), divided by the number of such months. The computation may also be made for individual classes of capital, i.e., long-term debt, short-term debt, preferred stock, and common stock equity.
Industry:Energy
