Autogenous Engineering Applications

The energy of the first combustion phase with oxygen, the primary flame, has to be added. Only this energy is of importance in autogenous engineering, a considerable advantage compared to other fuel gases. 

Main application fields of autogenous engineering (cf. Section 8.5)  

When operating, planning, constructing, at the initial and recurrent inspections, during maintenance and service of acetylene gas cylinders, bundles and their supply units national, European or international rules, orders, regulations have to be complied with, e.g.  

EC Directive 1999/92/EC of the European Parfiament and of the Council of 14 Dec 1999 explosion protection 

Equipment used in gas welding, cutting and allied processes - safety devices for fuel gases and oxygen or compresses air - general specifications, requirements and tests 

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Discontinuous (batch) processes are carried out in pressure vessels (autoclaves) where DMC is maintained as liquid by autogenous pressure. Instead, CF reactions at atmospheric pressure require that both DMC and the reagent(s) in the vapor phase come into contact with a catalytic bed a constraint that has spurred the development of new applications and alternative reaction engineering, namely, GL-PTC and the continuously fed stirred-tank reactor (CSTR). 

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