- Industry: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Separate and minute particles in a gas stream. Also, those appearing in the atmosphere as a result of chimney effluent. See POLLUTION, ATMOSPHERIC.
Industry:Energy
The general area encompassed by one or more oil or gas reservoirs or pools that are located on a single geologic feature, that are otherwise closely related to the same geologic feature (either structural or stratigraphic). See POOL.
Industry:Energy
A controlled process of reacting coal, steam, and oxygen under pressure and elevated temperature. The crude gas is purified and has a low heating value. Subsequent catalytic upgrading can be employed to produce high-Btu pipeline grade gas.
Industry:Energy
A strength test of equipment (pipe) in which the item is filled with liquid, subjected to suitable pressure, and then shut in, and the pressure monitored. Also a test to determine whether a container will hold a certain pressure.
Industry:Energy
Hydrocarbon that does not contain an aromatic ring structure. See AROMATIC.
Industry:Energy
That portion of a resource that has been actually discovered and that is presently technically and economically extractable. Also, a rock stratum that forms a trap for the accumulation of oil and gas. Also, a natural, subsurface container of fluids.
Industry:Energy
The maximum Btu per hour that can be released by a burner while burning with a stable flame and satisfactory combustion. Also called burner rating.
Industry:Energy
