- 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 process of supplying or removing air by natural or mechanical means to or from any space. Such air may or may not have been conditioned.
Industry:Energy
Unprocessed natural gas containing natural gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbon vapours produced from an oil well. Frequently called WET GAS, ASSOCIATED GAS (but not all wet gas or associated gas is casinghead gas), and in the past, BRADENHEAD GAS. Technically, the term should apply only to gas produced from the casing of an oil well, and not from the tubing, but it is often applied to any gas produced in association with oil.
Industry:Energy
A burner designed to supply gaseous fuel to an appliance originally designed to utilise another fuel. a. Firing Door Type - a conversion burner designed specifically for boiler or furnace firing door installation. b. Inshot Type - a conversion burner normally designed for boiler or furnace ash pit installation and fired in a horizontal position. c. Upshot Type - a conversion burner normally designed for boiler or furnace ash pit installation and fired in a vertical position at approximately grate level.
Industry:Energy
A groove or scooped out cavity damage to pipe caused by a foreign object.
Industry:Energy
A provision in a utility tariff which provides for periodic changes in charges or credits to a customer due to increases or decreases in certain costs over or under those included in base rates and incurred by the seller such as purchased gas cost, transportation costs, or advance payments made for gas.
Industry:Energy
An adjustable device for varying the primary air inlet(s) regulating primary or secondary air.
Industry:Energy
Failure that occurs through essentially microscopic breaks in the pipewall, frequently only at or near the test pressure.
Industry:Energy
Other fuels that can be substituted for the fuel in use. In the case of natural gas, the most common alternative fuels are distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, coal and wood.
Industry:Energy
The conversion of a portion or all of a firm sales customer's contract demand to firm transportation. Part 284 of the regulations requires an open access interstate pipeline to offer its firm sales customers a yearly option of converting a specified portion of its sales entitlements under any ELIGIBLE FIRM SALES SERVICE AGREEMENT to transportation.
Industry:Energy
Use of an electrical apparatus transmitting data to a distant point for indicating, recording, or integrating the values of a variable quantity.
Industry:Energy
