- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
The residue gas left after the completion of a treating process designed to remove certain liquids or liquefiable hydrocarbons.
Industry:Energy
A material that contains as an essential ingredient one or more organic polymeric substances of large molecular weight, is solid in its finished state, and, at some stage in its manufacture or processing into finished articles, can be shaped by flow. NOTE: Rubber, textiles, adhesives and paint, which may in some cases meet this definition, are not considered plastics. See ASTM definitions of these terms.
Industry:Energy
An ingredient used in the formulation of some plastics, to assist in maintaining the physical and chemical properties of the compounded materials at their initial values throughout the processing and service life of the material.
Industry:Energy
Rapid chemical reaction of oxygen with fuel accompanied by the production of heat, or heat and light.
Industry:Energy
The extraction of one or more components from a mixture of gases when gases and liquids are brought into contact. The assimilation or extraction process causes (or is accompanied by) a physical or chemical change, or both, in the sorbent material. Compare ADSORPTION.
Industry:Energy
The resistance of pipe valves, controls, and fittings to gas flow expressed as equivalent length of pipe or pipe of other sizes, for convenience in calculating pipe diameters.
Industry:Energy
