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• Lean burn — refers to the use of lean mixtures in an internal combustion engine. The air fuel ratios can be as high as 65:1, so the mixture has considerably less fuel in comparison to the stoichiometric combustion ratio (14.7:1 for petrol for example).… …   Wikipedia

• lean — [liːn] adjective 1. COMMERCE using the most effective methods and the fewest employees possible: • In the struggle to turn the company into a lean commercial outfit, some lines have been discontinued altogether. 2. MANUFACTURING lean… …   Financial and business terms

• Gas meter — A gas meter is used to measure the volume of fuel gases such as natural gas and propane. Gas meters are used at residential, commercial, and industrial buildings that consumes fuel gas supplied by a gas utility. Gases are more difficult to… …   Wikipedia

• Gas stripping — is extraction of hydrocarbon gases: ethane, propane, butane and natural gas gasoline components (С5H12 and heavier hydrocarbons) from hydrocarbon gases. It is performed at gas fields and gas processing plants. Gas stripping was initially… …   Glossary of Oil and Gas

• lean blowout — A condition in gas turbine engine fuel combustion during which the fuel supply is decreased to maintain or reduce engine RPM. In the process, the burning may be so slow that the flame is carried out of the combustion chamber and extinguished …   Aviation dictionary

• lean flameout — A condition in a gas turbine engine in which the flame goes out, because the fuel air mixture is too thin to support combustion …   Aviation dictionary

• South Pars / North Dome Gas-Condensate field — South Pars / North Dome Field …   Wikipedia

• 1998 Esso Longford gas explosion — The 1998 Esso Longford gas explosion was a catastrophic industrial accident which occurred at the Esso natural gas plant at Longford in the Australian state of Victoria s Gippsland region. On 25 September 1998, an explosion took place at the… …   Wikipedia

• Computer-aided lean management — Computer aided lean management, in business management, is a methodology of developing and using software controlled, lean systems integration. Its goal is to drive innovation towards cost and cycle time savings. It attempts to create an… …   Wikipedia

• History of the petroleum industry in Canada (natural gas liquids) — Canada s natural gas liquids industry dates back to the discovery of wet natural gas at Turner Valley, Alberta in 1914. The gas was less important than the natural gasoline skunk gas it was called, because of its distinctive odour that early… …   Wikipedia

• Natural gas processing — plants, or fractionators, are used to purify the raw natural gas extracted from underground gas fields and brought up to the surface by gas wells. The processed natural gas, used as fuel by residential, commercial and industrial consumers, is… …   Wikipedia