New city, new venue: the 2027 GPA Midstream Convention heads to Loews Arlington in Arlington, Texas, Sept. 19-22. Now is a great time to start thinking ahead! #Midstream #GPSA

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He also coined the word "cryogenic" itself, years before enthalpy. If you liked this, discover more in our midstream glossary: gpamidstream.org/education/m…

Onnes worked out of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, where he ran the world's leading low-temperature physics lab. He first liquefied helium there in 1908 and discovered superconductivity in 1911, work that won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1913.

Before that, the concept existed under duller names. American physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs described the same quantity back in 1875, calling it a "heat function for constant pressure," which really rolls off the tongue.

The term is barely a century old. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes coined it around 1908, building it from Greek roots meaning "to warm within."

This word sounds a bit like you're trying to say entropy with a mouth full of peanut butter, but its actually a completely different term. Enthalpy is simply the sum of a system's internal energy plus the product of its pressure and volume.

🔍 Gas Processing Term of the Week 🔍 Weekly jargon turned into plain English, one term at a time. This week's term: Enthalpy

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Marriott Rivercenter is our official convention hotel, our home base for all sessions and on-site networking.  Marriott Riverwalk is just across the street, so you're only steps away from everything. Book your room today and make sure you're right in the middle of the action.

⏰ Last call! The room block for the 2026 GPA Midstream Convention closes tomorrow. If you're heading to San Antonio September 20-23 for the industry's premier midstream event, now's the time to lock in your stay at the Marriott Rivercenter or Marriott Riverwalk.

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And it has nothing to do with the breathing you and I do. It's about vapor control. Although if anyone wants to start a tank-themed guided meditation app, tweet back. I have several ideas and for some reason no one has taken me up on them.

Turns out, breathing losses are a big piece of flashing emissions, and if you're running an internal combustion engine nearby, managing that breathing is essential. Get it wrong is costly for the environment and for your bottom line.

I hear you asking why someone bothered to make this distinction.

1) If the vapor movement is caused by pressure or temperature swings, that's called a breathing loss. 2) If it's caused by the liquid level actually going up or down (filling or draining), that's a working loss.

Breathing is the movement of vapor in or out of a vessel because of a liquid level change, or a change in temperature or atmospheric pressure. There are two causes, and it's worth keeping them straight:

🔍 Gas Processing Term of the Week Weekly jargon turned into plain English, one term at a time. This week's term: Breathing

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So without a gravitometer, everything that gets sold in midstream would be based on vibes. Which I think is fun but I'm told its not a great way to run an industry that literally powers the U.S. economy.