- 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 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
The ratio of the theoretical work requirement (using a stated process) to the actual work required to compress a given quantity of gas. It accounts for the gas friction losses, internal leakage and other variations from the idealized thermodynamic process.
Industry:Energy
Gas purchased by gas distributors from gas pipelines. The term is usually used by natural gas distributors to distinguish gas they purchased from pipelines from gas they purchased directly from producers and had transported.
Industry:Energy
A liquid similar to conventional crude oil but obtained from oil shale by conversion of organic matter (kerogen) in oil shale.
Industry:Energy
The drilling and related activities necessary to begin production after the initial discovery of oil or gas in a reservoir.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of the weight of water vapor in the atmosphere to the weight the air would hold if completely saturated at that temperature, expressed as a percentage.
Industry:Energy
The effects that a change in one end-use's consumption in a given structure has on another end-use's consumption in that structure.
Industry:Energy
An infusible white solid used in preparation of synthetic natural gas to absorb sulfur from naphtha.
Industry:Energy
Gauge pressure plus barometric pressure. Absolute pressure can be zero only in a perfect vacuum.
Industry:Energy
A material that contains as an essential ingredient one or more organic polymeric substances of large molecular weight, is solid in its finished state, and, at some stage in its manufacture or processing into finished articles, can be shaped by flow. NOTE: Rubber, textiles, adhesives and paint, which may in some cases meet this definition, are not considered plastics. See ASTM definitions of these terms.
Industry:Energy
