- Industry: 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 quantity of heat required to change a unit weight of liquid to vapor with no change in temperature.
Industry:Energy
A central furnace equipped with a fan or blower which provides the primary means for circulation of air.
Industry:Energy
A heat exchanger in which heat generated in the combustion chamber of the device is transferred directly through walls of the heat exchanger to the heating medium such as air, steam, or water, held in close contact with the combustion-chamber walls. It is a self-contained combustion and heat-transfer device, hence a direct heat-transfer device.
Industry:Energy
A rate schedule to move someone else's gas on a transmission or distribution system. Most transmission companies have a number of transportation rate schedules based on mileage, zones, firm or interruptible, and so on.
Industry:Energy
An allocation method used to allocate demand costs to customer classes based on peak day.
Industry:Energy
Flow of heat by radiation, convection, or conduction. This term is sometimes used to mean rate of heat transfer. See CONVECTION; CONDUCTION; RADIATION.
Industry:Energy
Permission to conduct geological and geophysical activity only, without the option to acquire lease acreage.
Industry:Energy
