- 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.
Generation by producers having generating plants for the purpose of supplying electric power required in the conduct of their industrial and commercial operations. Generation by mining, manufacturing, and commercial establishments and by stationary plants of railroads and railways for active power is included.
Industry:Energy
Real time monitoring of natural gas quantities and characteristics as it passes through a specific location.
Industry:Energy
The force exerted per unit area by a gas or liquid, measured at right angles to the direction of flow, or the pressure when no liquid is flowing.
Industry:Energy
The section of a gas-turbine that provides the high temperature gases needed to drive the power turbine.
Industry:Energy
A container or segment of piping placed at a low point in a system to collect condensate, dust, and foreign material, enabling their removal. Also known as Drip Leg and Drip Pot. Compare SERVICE DRIP.
Industry:Energy
A measure of the heat available or released when one cubic foot of gas is burned.
Industry:Energy
A special type of tariff which allows a gas pipeline to adjust periodically for any overage or underage in recovery of its cost of service (including per unit adjustments for loss of load). In contrast, a normal fixed-rate tariff, while specified based upon a cost of service estimate, does not provide for recovery of any previous underage or return of any overage above actual costs incurred.
Industry:Energy
An investigation, independent of a procurement action, performed on a product to determine whether or not the product conforms to all requirements of the applicable specification. NOTE: The examination is usually conducted by the agency responsible for the specification, the purchaser, or by a facility approved by the purchaser, at the request of the supplier seeking inclusion of his product on a qualified products list.
Industry:Energy
Generation of any electrical energy on a customer's property, with or without utilization of recoverable heat.
Industry:Energy
