- Industrie: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Perforated joint of line pipe designed to capture "pig" after pigging and cleaning operations.
Industry:Energy
The quantity of heat required to change a unit weight of liquid to vapor with no change in temperature.
Industry:Energy
Valve used to blow pressure off the pipeline. Also used in purge.
Industry:Energy
A central furnace equipped with a fan or blower which provides the primary means for circulation of air.
Industry:Energy
A heat exchanger in which heat generated in the combustion chamber of the device is transferred directly through walls of the heat exchanger to the heating medium such as air, steam, or water, held in close contact with the combustion-chamber walls. It is a self-contained combustion and heat-transfer device, hence a direct heat-transfer device.
Industry:Energy
A rate schedule to move someone else's gas on a transmission or distribution system. Most transmission companies have a number of transportation rate schedules based on mileage, zones, firm or interruptible, and so on.
Industry:Energy
An allocation method used to allocate demand costs to customer classes based on peak day.
Industry:Energy
Flow of heat by radiation, convection, or conduction. This term is sometimes used to mean rate of heat transfer. See CONVECTION; CONDUCTION; RADIATION.
Industry:Energy
