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Gaseous fuels. Gas burners can be diffusion flame burners or pre-aeraled burners. Diffusion flame burners may be relatively simple, with fuel gas burning at an orifice in the presence of... 

Gas burning equipment Usage factor Heating value of gas Use of hoods... 

For environmental reasons, burning should be smokeless. Long-chain and unsaturated hydrocarbons crack in the flame producing soot. Steam injection helps to produce clean burning by eliminating carbon through the water gas reaction. The quantity of steam required can be as high as 0.05—0.3 kg steam per kg of gas burned. A multijet flare can also be used in which the gas bums from a number of small nozzles parallel to radiant refractory rods which provide a hot surface catalytic effect to aid combustion. 

One cubic foot (0.03 cu.m) of methane requires 10 cubic feet (0.28 cu.m) of air (2cu.ft (0.06 cu.m) of oxygen and 8cu.ft (0.23 cu.m) of nitrogen) for combustion. The products are carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and water. The combustion product of one cubic foot of methane yields a total of nine cubic feet of carbon dioxide gas. Also, the gas burned contains some ethane, propane, and other hydrocarbons. The yield of inert combustion gas from burning a cubic foot of methane will be 9.33 cubic feet (0.26 cu.m)... 

Gas burning main - Light hydrocarbon vapors may be routed into gas burning mains for disposal. If a propane vaporizer is available, this may be used as a means of routing liquid light ends to the burning main. 

The amount of water vapor resulting from combustion varies with composition of the burned gas. When the value is unknown, one can estimate that each cubic meter of gas burned produces 42 grams (650 grains) of water vapor. 

Gas transmission companies require that impurities be removed from gas they purchase. They recognize the need for removal for the efficiem operation of their pipelines and their customers gas-burning equipment Consequently, contracts for the sale of gas to transmission companies always contain provisions regarding the quality of the gas that is delivered to them, and periodic tests are made to ascertain that requirements are being fulfilled by the seller. 

Rauchgas, n. smoke gas, flue gas, chimney gas, burned gas. -analyse, /. fiue-gas analysis, -vorwtlrmer, m. flue-gas preheater, economizer. 

An alkyne is a hydrocarbon that contains a carbon-carbon triple bond. Acetylene.. H—C= C—H, the simplest alkyne, was once widely used in industry as the starting material for the preparation of acetaldehyde, acetic acid, vinyl chloride, and other high-volume chemicals, but more efficient routes to these substances using ethylene as starting material are now available. Acetylene is still used in the preparation of acrylic polymers but is probably best known as the gas burned in high-temperature oxy-acetylene welding torches. 

Gas pressure must be properly regulated, all lines purged before use, and ignitors proven to work before initial startup. Also, all gas burning equipment must be regularly inspected for leaks to avoid risks of an explosion. 

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Toluene (C7H8) as a gas burns stoichiometrically in air to completion (i.e. forming carbon dioxide and water vapor). 

For low-pressure distribution systems, the required capacity is a pressure that would cause the unsafe operation of any connected and properly adjusted gas burning equipment. 

When natural gas is used directly in cooking devices, its efficiency can be as high as 90%. Thus, for every 16 g of gas burned, you get about 720 kJ (0.90 X 802 kJ) of usable energy as heat for cooking. This is a much higher fuel efficiency than you can get with appliances that use electrical energy produced in a power plant that runs on a fuel such as coal. 

For example, suppose that a source tells you that natural gas is 90% efficient. Is the source referring to natural gas burned directly for heat or for cooking Is the energy being converted from heat to electricity in a power plant Be as specific as possible. 

As early as 1800, coal gas or town gas was made by heating coal in the absence of air. Coal gas is rich in CH and gives off up to 20.5 kJ per liter of gas burned. Coal gas became so popnlar that most major cities and many small towns had a local gas... 

The third chemical equation, involving nitric oxide, represents a termolecular reaction. Therefore, the overall order of the reaction is expected to exceed that of the second-order reaction generally assumed in the pre-mixed gas burning model. The high exothermicity accompanying the reduction of NO to N2 is responsible for the appearance of the luminous flame in the combustion of a double-base propellant, and hence the flame disappears when insufScient heat is produced in this way, i. e., during fizz burning. 

Jackson and Adams studied 33 cases of extensive basal cell carcinoma, two of which involved mustard-gas burns sustained during World War I. One of those developed 35 yr after the burn, but 2 yr after irradiation with cobalt-60. In the other, basal cell carcinoma developed at the site of three separate burns, 3 yr after exposure. Some of the mustard burns did not lead to basal cell cancer. 

It is mentioned under "Burning (ot Combustion) and Burning Characteristics of Gases, Vapors and Dusts , described in this Vol, that while burning rate depends to a certain extent on the diameter of pipe in which the gas burns, the detonation rate does not de-(Eq 1) pend on diameter, provided it is sufficiently large... 

Gas burning from a newly drilled oil pit in Karlin in Northern Poland in 1981 was successfully extinguished with howitzer shells. 

As you can see in Figure 2.4, the two primary products when natural gas burns are carbon dioxide and water. Because of the heat generated by the burning, the water is released as water vapor. When it comes into contact with the relatively cool sides of the pot, this water vapor condenses to the liquid phase and is seen as sweat. If the pot contained ice water, more vapor would condense, enough to form drops that roll off the bottom edge. As the pot gets warmer, this liquid water is heated and returns to the gaseous phase. 

Natural gas burns more cleanly than petroleum and much more cleanly than coal. This purest of fossil fuels contains negligible quantities of sulfur hence, insignificant amounts of sulfur dioxide are produced. Also, because natural gas burns at lower temperatures, only small amounts of nitrogen oxides are released. Perhaps most important, however, is that generating energy from natural gas produces less carbon dioxide—about half as much as is produced from burning... 

Were these your answers Coal is the most abundant. Because it contains few impurities, natural gas burns most cleanly. Because it is a liquid, petroleum is easiest to transport. 

ACETYLENE. [CAS 74-86-2]. CH CH formula weight 26.04, mp — 81.5°C, bp —84 0, sp gr 0.905 (air = 1.000). Sometimes referred to as ethyne, ethine, or gaseous carbon (92.3% of the compound is C), acetylene is moderately soluble in H2O or alcohol, and exceptionally soluble in acetone (300 volumes of acetylene m 1 volume of acetone at 12 atmospheres pressure) The gas burns when ignited in air with a luminous sooty flame, requiring a specially devised burner for illumination purposes. An explosive mixture is formed with air over a wide range (about 3 to 80% acetylene), but safe handling is improved when the gas is dissolved in acetone, The heating value is 1455 Btu/ft--1 (8.9 Cal/nr). 

When methane, the major component of natural gas, burns in air, the reaction produces not only carbon dioxide and water, but also a lot of heat. Reaction with oxygen is called combustion. The combustion of methane is the following reaction ... 

The conclusion at which we arrive above, that the temperature of a non-premixed flame is equal to the combustion temperature of the stoichiometric mixture, is in contradiction with experiment it is well known from daily laboratory experience that in the combustion of a given luminescent gas in a Bunsen burner when the apertures for air suction are closed the temperature of the flame is lower than when the same gas burns with open apertures so... 

For equal amounts of gas burned, i.e., for equal heat release, the size of the flame without supply of air is significantly larger than when air is supplied, and therefore the radiating surface is larger and the chemical energy released per unit surface is smaller. In addition, the luminescence of the flame without supply of air is greater as a result of the appearance within it of tiny particles of carbon which arise from the dissociation of the fuel s hydrocarbons when air is supplied, the carbon disappears. 

Methane, the main constituent of natural gas, burns in oxygen to yield carbon dioxide and water ... 

When natural gas burns in a plentiful supply of air it produces a large amount of energy. 

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