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American Gas Association
Industri: 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.
Shredded hemp fibers used to caulk or fill joints, as in bell-and-spigot pipe; oakum may be dry or saturated with tar or oil.
Industry:Energy
The group of unsaturated or heavy hydrocarbons in a manufactured gas, such as ethylene and benzene, which burn with a luminous flame.
Industry:Energy
The sum cooling effect of a building structure when the outdoor temperature is lower than the desired indoor temperature.
Industry:Energy
A customer who participates in a utility DSM program, and thereby receives the services or financial incentives provided by the utility, who would have taken the same conservation actions in the absence of a DSM program.
Industry:Energy
A meter of high capacity for measuring the output of a gas plant or pipeline delivery station.
Industry:Energy
A substance capable of holding materials together by surface attachment.
Industry:Energy
Any absorbent or adsorbent, liquid or solid, that will remove water or water vapor from a material. In a refrigeration circuit, the desiccant must be insoluble in the refrigerant.
Industry:Energy
In a boiler, the carry-over of slugs of water into the piping due to dirty water or overloading of the boiler. Compare PRIMING.
Industry:Energy
Restrictions states place on the production of associated gas. See GAS, ASSOCIATED.
Industry:Energy
Shut off so there is no flow; refers to a well, plant, pump, etc., when valves are closed at both inlet and outlet.
Industry:Energy