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Industry: Energy
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The most common coal, which is dense, black and has a moisture content of less than 20%. Used for generating electricity, making coke, and space heating.
Industry:Energy
The process for removing benzene, toluene and xylene from reformate or pyrolysis gasoline.
Industry:Energy
Storage facilities or hub located near gas users (markets).
Industry:Energy
The producer/seller agrees to suspend a nominated price increase. Often used in the US petrochemicals market.
Industry:Energy
A unit of electrical capacity equivalent to one kilowatt of power used for 8760 hours.
Industry:Energy
Facility used to tie together two or more electric circuits through switches. The switches are selectively arranged to permit a circuit to be disconnected, or to change the electric connection between the circuits.
Industry:Energy
Also known as catfeed. Feedstock for fluid catalytic crackers used to make gasoline, gasoil and other by-products.
Industry:Energy
The simple difference between the price now and the price N days ago. Momentum is negative if the price now is below the price N days ago, and positive if it is above.
Industry:Energy
To place a generating facility in an inactive state so that it can neither be brought into operation immediately nor counted towards reserve margin.
Industry:Energy
A fundamental and usually long-lasting oversupply situation. A gas bubble typically is responsible for long-term depressed prices.
Industry:Energy