- Industrie: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Permission to conduct geological and geophysical activity only, without the option to acquire lease acreage.
Industry:Energy
The quantity of heat transferred through a unit area of a material in a unit time per unit of temperature difference between the two sides of the material.
Industry:Energy
Voids in a reservoir rock available for storage of fluids. Measured in percent of rock volume.
Industry:Energy
A central heating and/or cooling system which is arranged so that different temperatures can be maintained in two or more areas of the building being heated or cooled or simultaneously heated or cooled.
Industry:Energy
A heat exchanger which encloses or contains a heating medium such as air, steam, or water, the heat from which is transferred to another heating medium separately contained in close contact with or directed through the heat exchanger. It is an indirect heat-transfer device.
Industry:Energy
A rate schedule which is applicable to a specific customer class of service.
Industry:Energy
An allocation method which allocates demand and/or commodity costs to customer classes by seasonal usage.
Industry:Energy
For gases: The ratio of the specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume. This ratio is important in thermodynamic equations, and is given the symbol k where k=cp/cv. The ratio k lies between 1.2 and 1.4 for most gases.
Industry:Energy
