- 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.
Any permanent combination of facilities which supplies the energy to move gas at increased pressure from fields, in transmission lines, or into storage.
Industry:Energy
Maintenance of pressure, in all or part of a system, at a predetermined level or within a selected range.
Industry:Energy
The minimum pressure required to liquefy a gas at its critical temperature.
Industry:Energy
In DSM, an option which could be implemented for which equipment has been developed and tested and is available in the current marketplace, or will be in the future.
Industry:Energy
Storage facilities, or portion of storage facilities, which is used by the pipeline to store gas for its own use, to meet the peak day requirements of its sales customers and to provide flexibility on its system. See CONTRACT STORAGE.
Industry:Energy
The act or process of distributing gas from the city gas or plant that portion of utility plant used for the purpose of delivering gas from the city gate or plant to the consumers, or to expenses relating to the operating and maintenance of distribution plant.
Industry:Energy
A device for converting alternating current to direct current, used in the gas industry for external corrosion control of pipe and other metals.
Industry:Energy
Stored energy. Energy possessing the power of doing work but not actually performing such work.
Industry:Energy
The action on a material which decreases its volume as the pressure to which it is subjected increases.
Industry:Energy
The movement of a material, such as a gas or liquid, in the body of a plastic. If the gas or liquid is absorbed on one side of a piece of plastic and given off on the other side, the phenomenon is called permeability. Diffusion and permeability are not due to holes or pores in the plastic but are caused and controlled by chemical mechanisms.
Industry:Energy
