- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
A nuclear power unit that uses ordinary water to cool its core. The LWR may be a boiling water reactor or a pressurised water reactor.
Industry:Energy
An enclosed space that is provided with heating equipment that has a capacity exceeding 10 Btus/(hr-ft2), or with cooling equipment that has a capacity exceeding 10 Btus/(hr-ft2). An exception is if the heating and cooling equipment is designed and thermostatically controlled to maintain a process environment temperature less than 65 degrees Fahrenheit or greater than 85 degrees Fahrenheit for the whole space the equipment serves. (See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2- 5302)
Industry:Energy
Brownish black coal having qualities in between those of bituminous coal and peat. The texture of the original wood often is visible in lignite.
Industry:Energy
Enclosed space that: (1) has a greater area weighted heat transfer coefficient (u-value) between it and directly conditioned spaces than between it and the outdoors or unconditioned space; (2) has air transferred from directly conditioned space moving through it at a rate exceeding three air changes per hour.
Industry:Energy
The process of making synthetic liquid fuel from coal. The term also is used to mean a method for making large amounts of gasoline and heating oil from petroleum.
Industry:Energy
The quantity of heat, in Btu's, that will flow through one square foot of material in one hour, when there is a 1 degree F temperature difference between both surfaces. Conductance values are given for a specific thickness of material, not per inch thickness.
Industry:Energy
Gases that have been or can be changed into liquid form. These include butane, butylene, ethane, ethylene, propane and propylene.
Industry:Energy
The transfer of heat energy through a material (solid, liquid or gas) by the motion of adjacent atoms and molecules without gross displacement of the particles.
Industry:Energy
A type of geothermal energy resource that depends on naturally occurring hot water solution found within the earth. Technology for this novel energy source is being developed in the Salton Sea area in Southern California.
Industry:Energy
The quantity of heat that will flow through one square foot of homogeneous material, one inch thick, in one hour, when there is a temperature difference of one degree Fahrenheit between its surfaces.
Industry:Energy
