| net heating value | The potential energy available in the fuel as received, taking into account the energy loss in evapourating and superheating the water in the sample. Expressed as NVH = (HHV x (1- MC / 100)) - (LH(2)O x MC / 100) (05 Dec 1998) |
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| gross heating value | (GHV) The maximum potential energy in the fuel as received. It reflects the displacement of fibre by water present in the fuel. Expressed as: GHV = HHV (1 - MC / 100) (05 Dec 1998) |
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| heating value | The maximum amount of energy that is available from burning a substance. (05 Dec 1998) |
| higher heating value | (HHV) The maximum potential energy in dry fuel. For wood, the range is 7,600 to 9,600 Btu/lb. (05 Dec 1998) |
| net present value | The sum of the costs and benefits of a project or activity. Future benefits and costs are discounted to account for interest costs. (05 Dec 1998) |
| lower heating value | (LHV) The potential energy in a fuel if the water vapour from combustion of hydrogen is not condensed. (05 Dec 1998) |
| artificial neural net | Artificial Neural Nets (ANN) are computer models of biological nerve cell networks. (09 Oct 1997) |
| bag net | A bag-shaped net for catching fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| radio frequency heating | <radiobiology> Process for heating the plasma by transferring energy to ions or electrons using waves generated by an external oscillator at an appropriate frequency. (This is similar to how a microwave oven heats food.) There are various types: See: ECRH, ICRH, and Lower Hybrid. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Chiari's net | Abnormal fibrous or lacelike strands in the right atrium, extending from the margins of the coronary or caval valves and attaching to the atrial wall along the line of the crista terminalis; results when resorption of the septum spurium is markedly less than normal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chromidial net | A reticulum of basophilic-staining material in the cytoplasm of certain cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heating | That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. Heating surface, the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, especially. Of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces. Synonym: fire surface. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| heating curve | <chemistry> A plot of temperature verses time for a substance where energy is added at a constant rate. (09 Jan 1998) |
| nerve net | A meshlike structure composed of interconnecting nerve cells that are separated at the synaptic junction or joined to one another by cytoplasmic processes. In invertebrates, for example, the nerve net allows nerve impulses to spread over a wide area of the net because synapses can pass information in any direction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| net | 1. To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk. 2. To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile. "And now I am here, netted and in the toils." (Sir W. Scott) 3. To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree. Origin: Netted; Netting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| net flux | The difference between the two unidirectional flux's. (05 Mar 2000) |