Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A storage container for fuel gas, especially a large, telescoping, cylindrical tank.
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- noun A large,
telescopic cylindrical tank , with a water seal, used forstoring domestic gas
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Examples
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The ratio of gasholder volume (VG) to daily gas production (G) is called the gasholder capacity (C).
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Between the generating chamber and the gasholder is a three-way cock _J_ in the gas connexion, which, when the gasholder is shut off from the generator, brings the latter into communication with a vent-pipe _K_ leading to the open.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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The location is directly opposite the gasholder works, on land that the HSE believes is unfit for housing and schools
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The location is directly opposite the gasholder works, on land that the HSE believes is unfit for housing and schools
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These are the floating-drum plant, the plant with a plastic balloon-type gasholder and the fixed-dome plant.
2. Biogas technology 1993
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The compensation chamber is consequently the same size as the inner gasholder.
2. Biogas technology 1993
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Every biogas dissemination programme for household plants can and should restrict itself to standard sizes regarding digester and gasholder volumes (e.g. VD = 6, 9, 12, 18 m³).
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The gas is fed directly from the gasholder to the burner through pipes.
2. Biogas technology 1993
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For household plants, the digester volume (VD) is about five times as great as the volume of the gasholder (VG).
2. Biogas technology 1993
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A disproportionally large gasholder combined with a larger digester would correspond to this peak demand.
2. Biogas technology 1993
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