- Industry: 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.
Pressure against which a fluid is flowing. May be composed of friction in pipes, restrictions in pipes, valves, pressure in vessels to which fluid is flowing, hydrostatic head, or other resistance to fluid flow.
Industry:Energy
The direct measuring of consumption by specific end-use appliances, typically as part of load research studies or to measure the impacts of DSM programs.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of the sum of the non-coincident maximum demands of two or more loads to their coincident maximum demands for the same period. Compare COINCIDENCE FACTOR.
Industry:Energy
A coal gasification process which produces gas through the controlled reaction of coal and oxygen in the presence of excess steam in a reactor.
Industry:Energy
A liquefaction process using expansion turbines or engines to produce mechanical energy while refrigerating the gas to be liquefied.
Industry:Energy
A self-contained, vented appliance complete with grilles or equivalent, designed for incorporation in or permanent attachment to a wall, floor, ceiling, or partition, and furnishing heated air circulated by gravity or by a fan directly into the space to be heated, through openings in the casing. Such appliances shall not be provided with duct extensions beyond the vertical and horizontal limits of the casing proper, except that boots not to exceed 10 inches beyond the horizontal limits of the casing for extension through walls of nominal thickness may be permitted. Where such boots are provided, they shall be supplied by the manufacturer as an integral part of the appliance and tested as such. This definition shall exclude floor furnaces, unit heaters, and central furnaces.
Industry:Energy
An enclosed rotary type of prime mover in which heat energy in steam or gas is converted into mechanical energy by the force of a high velocity flow of steam or gas directed against successive rows of radial blades fastened to a central shaft. Compare ENGINE, RECIPROCATING.
Industry:Energy
Gas produced with oil in oil wells. The gas being taken from the well through the casinghead at the top of the well.
Industry:Energy
