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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Industri: Energy
Number of terms: 18450
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A mixture of hydrocarbons, mostly pentanes and heavier, extracted from natural gas. Includes isopentane, natural gasoline, and plant condensate.
Industry:Energy
A repository for waste material generated by the coal cleaning process.
Industry:Energy
Spent nuclear fuel storage pool or dry cask storage facility, usually located at the reactor site, as licenced by (or proposed to be licenced by) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
Industry:Energy
Refrigeration/freezer units within a building that are large enough to walk into. They may be portable or permanent, such as a meat storage locker in a butcher store. Walk-in units may or may not have a door, plastic strips, or other flexible covers.
Industry:Energy
The relative change in a quantity over a specified time period. It is calculated as follows the current value has the previous value subtracted from it; this new number is divided by the absolute value of the previous value; then this new number is multiplied by 100.
Industry:Energy
A surface mine where coal is recovered from previously mined coal. It may also be known as a silt bank, culm bank, refuse bank, slurry dam, or dredge operation.
Industry:Energy
Total volume of gas withdrawn from underground storage or from liquefied natural gas storage over a specified amount of time.
Industry:Energy
Insulating materials within or on the walls between heated areas of the building and unheated areas or the outside. The walls may separate air-conditioned areas from areas not air-conditioned.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of total production to productive capacity, times 100.
Industry:Energy
The recapture of coal from a refuse mine or the coal recaptured by that process. The resulting product has been cleaned to reduce the concentration of noncombustible materials.
Industry:Energy