Burning hydrocarbon gases

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

From: Geoff Ruth (gruth@leadershiphigh.org)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 11:36:54 PDT 

Message-Id: <p05200f01bac89884bb60@[192.168.1.25]>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 11:36:54 -0700
From: Geoff Ruth <gruth@leadershiphigh.org>
Subject: Burning hydrocarbon gases

This morning I was thinking about the simpler hydrocarbon gases and
which ones are used for combustion by people. Methane (CH4) is burned
a lot, as are propane (C3H8) and butane (C4H10), but I don't know of
many instances where ethane (C2H6) is used. Does anyone know in what
circumstances ethane is used as a fuel? And why isn't ethane more
commonly used in residential applications?

Thanks,
Geoff

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Mon Aug 04 2003 - 16:18:13 PDT