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American Gas Association
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.
A method of expressing the amount of air infiltration and/or ventilation of a building or room in terms of the number of building volumes or room volumes exchanged per unit of time.
Industry:Energy
A system using the momentum of a jet of low pressure gas (up to and including 1/2 psig or 14 inches of water column) to entrain from the atmosphere a portion of the air required for combustion.
Industry:Energy
Any service provided by a pipeline company to assist its customers in smoothing the fluctuations in their demand for gas.
Industry:Energy
In general, resistance to flow; that property of semi-fluids and gases by virtue of which they resist an instantaneous change of shape or arrangement of molecules.
Industry:Energy
See ACCUMULATED PROVISION FOR DEPRECIATION.
Industry:Energy
Subsurface water that surrounds gas and oil in reservoir structures.
Industry:Energy
The internal pressure at which pipe or fitting will, most likely, fail after 100,000 hours (11.43 years).
Industry:Energy
The tensile stress necessary to cause failure in a short-time test. It is performed by pulling a specimen of specified dimension at a specified rate.
Industry:Energy
A device for determining the accuracy of a meter under test by comparing its reading against the reading obtained from a calibrated reference meter connected in series with the meter under test.
Industry:Energy
A method of pricing gas inventory for PGA purposes in which storage injections are priced at the month's jurisdictional system cost of purchased gas and storage withdrawals are priced by dividing the total purchase cost of the gas in storage by the quantity of gas in storage.
Industry:Energy