Coal gas engineering

✍ Scribed by Robt. Briggs

• Book ID: 103085511
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1878
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 427 KB
• Volume: 105
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(78)90222-3

✦ Synopsis

RESULTS OF COMBUS-

zloN.--Some forty or more distinct gaseous chemical components are well known to have existence in the ordinary coal gas of the gas works, in four several groups : the first of which are gases which burn in air without, or with slight, emission of light; the second, gases which, when burned with the first for supply of heat, evolve carbon, which, becoming incandescent before burning itself, emits light; the third, incombustible gases ; and the fourth, gases which are considered impurities. The first group is over four-fifths of the volume of coal gas, and is composed of only three substances or compounds, to wit: hydrogen, marsh gas and carbonic oxide; the second, which is only 7 to 9 per cent., comprises an almost endless list of hydro-carbon compounds, which are diffused, as gases or vapors, into the gases of the other groups; for the purpose of this paper this group will be con-W•OLB NO.