- 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 demand averaged over a specified period, usually determined by an integrating demand meter or by the integration of a load curve. It is the average of the instantaneous demands during a specified demand interval.
Industry:Energy
The rating of a steam boiler expressed as the total heat transferred by the heating surfaces in Btu per hour. Sometimes expressed in horsepower or pounds of steam per hour.
Industry:Energy
When two or more meters are combined for billing purposes under the following conditions: Where combinations of meter readings are specifically provided for in rate schedules. Where the maintenance of adequate service and/or where a company's operating convenience shall require the installation
Industry:Energy
A hollow cylinder of a plastic material in which the wall thicknesses are ususally small when compared to the diameter and in which the inside and outside walls are essentially concentric.
Industry:Energy
A removable plug or cap containing an orifice which permits adjustment of the flow of gas either by substitution of a spud with a different sized orifice or by motion of a needle with respect to it.
Industry:Energy
An assembly of more than one piece of pipe; a portion of a fitting having its end in line or nearly so, as distinct from the branch or side opening, as of a tee.
Industry:Energy
Furnaces which recirculate the products of combustion and extract available heat to a point that causes condensation to occur. Some of this latent heat of vaporization is recovered as usable energy and results in higher operating efficiencies.
Industry:Energy
Plastics based on resins composed principally of a long-chain synthetic polymeric amide which has recurring amide groups as an integral part of the main polymer chain.
Industry:Energy
