- 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.
The amount of gas delivered or required at any specified point or points on a system; load originates primarily at the gas consuming equipment of the customers. Also, to load a pressure regulator is to set the regulator to maintain a given pressure as the rate of gas flow through the regulator varies. Compare DEMAND.
Industry:Energy
The outdoor air in general. Also a mixture of gases within any specified chamber, such as heat-treating furnace.
Industry:Energy
The overall variation in the time at which individual demands occur. Compare DEMAND, COINCIDENT and DEMAND, NON-COINCIDENT.
Industry:Energy
A flexible tubing connecting a rigid pipe gas supply line to gas utilizing equipment.
Industry:Energy
Minimum temperature at which a substance will continue to burn after being ignited.
Industry:Energy
The weighted average of the cost of various sources of capital, generally consisting of outstanding securities such as mortgage debt, preferred and preference stock, common stock, etc., and retained earnings, but which may include other interest-bearing obligations or sources of capital such as short-term notes, customer security deposits; and which may also include noninterest-bearing sources such as funds generated through use of deferred taxes, i.e., accelerated amortization, accelerated depreciation, and accumulated investment tax credit (subject to tax law limitations). The weight to be used for each source of funds generally is the percentage of each fund outstanding to the total amount outstanding of all sources of funds considered; however, target or projected ratios may also be used. The cost rate assigned each source may be the average cost of all obligations outstanding or projected costs for each source or a rate specifically assigned by a commission. The summation of the product of the weight (percentage) of each source to the total source times its cost is the cost of capital.
Industry:Energy
A plastic or resin prepared by the polymerization of ethylene as essentially the sole monomer.
Industry:Energy
A plastic with high strength fillers imbedded in the composition, in some mechanical properties superior to those of the base resin. The reinforcing fillers are usually fibers, fabrics, or mats made of fibers.
Industry:Energy
Curtailment imposed on a seasonal summer (April-October) or winter (November-March) basis because of gas supply deficiency. See PEAK DAY CURTAILMENT.
Industry:Energy
Mixture in which the components lose their identity and are uniformly dispersed. All solutions are composed of a solvent (water or other fluid) and the substance dissolved called the "solute". A true solution is homogeneous, as salt in water. Air is a solution of oxygen and nitrogen.
Industry:Energy
