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American Gas Association
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.
A valve, or plate, used to regulate the flow of air or other gases.
Industry:Energy
Constituents resulting from the combustion of a fuel with the oxygen of the air including the inerts but excluding excess air. (Not to be confused with flue gases). Compare GAS, FLUE.
Industry:Energy
Manufactured gas made by distillation or carbonization of coal in a closed coal gas retort, coke oven, or other vessel.
Industry:Energy
See FLASH BACK.
Industry:Energy
The actual cost of land, buildings, pipelines and other plant items to the company, when used in ratemaking it assumes the company's acquisition costs are prudent. The difference with original cost is the acquisition adjustment. See ORIGINAL COST.
Industry:Energy
The net accumulated credit balance arising from provisions for depreciation and/or amortization (both defined herein) of assets, usually utility plant and non-utility property. The net balance reflects current and prior credits less charges but is not a measure of actual depreciation.
Industry:Energy
The vapor pressure of the solvent in a solution is proportional to the mole fraction of the solvent. this law has been of fundamental importance in the development of the theory of solutions.
Industry:Energy
A gasification plant where liquid butane is vaporized and mixed with air and delivered into a gas distribution system for the use of consumers.
Industry:Energy
A process by which nominations are first consolidated by receipt point, by contract, and verified with upstream/ downstream parties. If the verified capacity is greater than or equal to the total nominated quantities, all nominated quantities are scheduled. If verified capacity is less than nominated quantities, nominated quantities will be allocated according to scheduling priorities.
Industry:Energy
American National Standards Institute - The coordinating organization for America's federated national standards system. The ANSI federation consists of nine hundred companies, large and small, and some two hundred trade, technical, professional, labor, and consumer organizations.
Industry:Energy