- Industry: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
The decrease of stress with respect to time in a piece of plastic that is subject to an external load at constant deformation.
Industry:Energy
The rate design step that allocates the demand and commodity costs of the various functions to the customer classes. See COST OF SERVICE.
Industry:Energy
A chemical compound composed solely of carbon and hydrogen. The compounds having a small number of carbon and hydrogen atoms in their molecules are usually gaseous; those with a larger number of atoms are liquid, and the compounds with the largest number of atoms are solid.
Industry:Energy
A heat-treating process in which carbon is introduced into a solid iron-base alloy by heating above the transformation temperature range while in contact with a carbonaceous material which may be a solid, liquid, or gas. Carburizing is frequently followed by quenching to produce a hardened case.
Industry:Energy
A regulating device, actuated by changes in humidity, used for the automatic control of relative humidity.
Industry:Energy
An arrangement of tubes through which the feed water passes before entering boiler drum and flue gases leave burners. Economizers are invariably counter flow; meaning the water flows opposite to the gases, and heat of gases is transferred to the water.
Industry:Energy
Free natural gas not in contact with, nor dissolved in, crude oil in the reservoir.
Industry:Energy
Plastic pipe and plastic equipment stored so that it is not protected from the elements of normal weather conditions, i.e, the sun's rays, rain, air and wind.
Industry:Energy
