- Industry: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
The equivalent temperature resulting from the combined effect of wind and temperature. For example: At 10 degrees Fahrenheit above 0 with a 20-mile per hour wind, the effect is the same as 24 degrees Fahrenheit below 0 without wind. See also CHILL FACTOR.
Industry:Energy
The reduction in volume of wet natural gas due to the extraction of some of its constituents, such as hydrocarbon products, hydrogen sulphide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium, and water vapor.
Industry:Energy
A common mineral-iron disulfide (FeS2) which has a pale brass-yellow color and metallic luster and is burned in making sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid. Often called "Fool's Gold".
Industry:Energy
A manually operated valve or stop in the gas line for the purpose of completely turning on or shutting off the gas supply to the appliance except to pilot or pilots which are provided with independent shut-off valves.
Industry:Energy
A shell with internal baffler or packing, so arranged that gas to be cleaned passes up through the baffles counter-current to the flow of scrubbing liquid down through the washer. The baffler or packing causes intimate contact and mixing of the gas with the liquid stream.
Industry:Energy
An exploratory well being drilled in unproven territory, that is, in a horizon from which there is no production in the general area.
Industry:Energy
Gas that is purchased by a pipeline or distribution company for the purpose of resale. See SYSTEM SUPPLY.
Industry:Energy
Processing that breaks down and rearranges the molecular structure of hydrocarbon chains. In thermal cracking, high temperature and high pressures are applied; in catalytic cracking, temperature and pressure are applied in the presence of a catalyst. See CATALYST.
Industry:Energy
