- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
- Number of blossaries: 1
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
The accounting of the energy output and losses from a system to equal the energy input.
Industry:Energy
A document whereby the producer and the purchaser adopt the terms and provisions of another contract as those under which they will make their own sale and purchase.
Industry:Energy
Combustible material, as pertaining to material adjacent to or in contact with heat producing appliances, chimney connectors and vent connectors, steam and hot water pipes, and warm air ducts, means material made of or surfaced with wood, compressed paper, plant fibers, or other material that will ignite and burn. Such material shall be considered as combustible even though flameproofed, fire retardant treated, or plastered.
Industry:Energy
The measure of a fluid's tendency to resist flow, without regard to its density. By definition, the product of a fluid's kinematic viscosity times its density.
Industry:Energy
A system of transmission or distribution lines so cross-connected and operated as to permit multiple supply to any principal point on it.
Industry:Energy
The temperature above which a fluid cannot exist as a liquid and hence cannot be liquefied by pressure alone.
Industry:Energy
Losses in static or velocity pressure in a piping system due to friction, eddies, leaks, or improper piping design. See PRESSURE DROP.
Industry:Energy
In DSM, an estimate of energy savings based on the assumption that all energy-efficient options will be adopted and all existing equipment will be replaced with the most efficient measure possible whenever it is cost-effective to do so, without regard to market acceptance. Compare ACHIEVABLE POTENTIAL, MARKET POTENTIAL and TECHNICAL POTENTIAL.
Industry:Energy
Same as plastic pipe except that it is usually of small diameter and sized on the same system commonly used for copper tubing.
Industry:Energy
