- Industry: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
That 24-hour period specified by a supplier-user contract for purposes of determining the purchaser's daily quantity of gas used (e.g., 8 AM to 8 AM, etc.). This term is primarily used in pipeline-distribution company agreements. It is similar to, and usually coincides with, the distribution company "sendout day".
Industry:Energy
The liquid resulting when a vapor is subjected to cooling or application of pressure. Also, liquid hydrocarbons condensed from gas and oil wells. Compare LIQUIDS, NATURAL GAS.
Industry:Energy
The term given to natural gas liquids produced from refrigeration units at the well site.
Industry:Energy
A device that maintains the pressure in a fluid flow line, less than its inlet pressure within a constant band of pressures, regardless of the rate of flow in the line or the change in upstream pressure.
Industry:Energy
A method used to increase the pressure, and thereby the amount of charge per cycle, above that of a normally aspirated internal combustion engine; it permits more fuel to be burned and is a practical means to greater engine power.
Industry:Energy
A term indicating that no heat is lost or gained by a material being subjected to a thermodynamic process. An adiabatic process is one in which there is no exchange of heat with the surroundings.
Industry:Energy
Asbestos and magnesia plaster used on process equipment and piping as a thermal insulation.
Industry:Energy
Increasing the amount of gas in a line section by increasing pressure to meet a heavy demand, usually of short duration.
Industry:Energy
That characteristic of a chemical reaction, such as fuel combustion, in which heat is liberated.
Industry:Energy
