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Gaseous Fuels For Engine Use

By Mac Sine

Annandale, Virginia 22003

Gas fuels for engines have been in use since the earliest days of the internal combustion engine. One of the earliest gas engines to be manufactured for commercial use was the Lenoir engine, built in France between 1860 and 1865. The earliest gas fuels were illuminating gas and natural gas. These two fuels are similar, but illuminating gas contains more carbon and impurities than does natural gas. Even after gasoline became popular in the late 1800s, gas fuels continued to be and still arepopular for use with stationary engines. Over the years LP-gas has become the most popular engine fuel, with natural gas the second-most popular.

LP-gas is the abbreviation for liquified petroleum gas which can be either BUTANE (C4H10), PROPANE (C3H8) or a mixture of the two. LP-gas first began to gain recognition around 1890. Around 1903 Herman Blau ...

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