- 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.
The conversion factor for transforming heat units into mechanical units of work. One Btu equals 778 foot-pounds.
Industry:Energy
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 vapors 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 utilize 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 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
