- 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.
A quality which allows a material to repeatedly soften when heated and harden when cooled. Typical of the thermoplastics family are the styrene polymers and copolymers, acrylics, cellulosics, polyethylenes, vinyls, nylons, and the various fluorocarbon materials.
Industry:Energy
A quantity of gas containing an amount of Btus equal to the amount of Btus received by Transporter for the account of Shipper at the Point(s) of Receipt reduced, where applicable, by the Btus removed for Transporter's compressor fuel and Transporter's lost-and-unaccounted for gas and BTU shrinkage in the treatment and processing of Shipper's gas, all as attributable to transportation of Shipper's gas.
Industry:Energy
A quantity of gas required by a transporter to provide the transportation service. Fuel gas includes, but is not limited to, gas consumed in transporter's mainline compressor stations, gathering system booster stations and processing plants.
Industry:Energy
Voids in a reservoir rock available for storage of fluids. Measured in percent of rock volume.
Industry:Energy
A central heating and/or cooling system which is arranged so that different temperatures can be maintained in two or more areas of the building being heated or cooled or simultaneously heated or cooled.
Industry:Energy
An allocation method which allocates demand and/or commodity costs to customer classes by seasonal usage.
Industry:Energy
Pertaining to the state of the atmosphere with reference to moisture.
Industry:Energy
The quantity of heat transmitted per hour through one square foot of a building section (wall, roof, window, etc.) for each degree Fahrenheit of temperature difference between the air on the warm side and the air on the cold side of the building section.
Industry:Energy
Volume of air delivered to a burner that will produce the maximum thermal efficiency under specific operating conditions.
Industry:Energy
A certificate issued by a Federal authority certifying that certain facilities are necessary in the interest of national defense, which permits accelerated amortization of the cost of the facilities or a certain specified percentage thereof, for income tax purposes, over a 60-month period.
Industry:Energy
