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02/27/2008 11:19 AM

can i reduce liqified petroluem gasoline LPG usage in establishments by mixing it with compressed air ?

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02/27/2008 11:44 AM

No.

The compressed air, when escaping, will throw the flame across enemy lines. Which is good if your in a battle, but bad in your in a plant. The LPG needs to be mixed with air to burn in the first place, so by the time you add the compressed air, then reduce the pressure back to ambient pressure, you've saved nothing and added the cost of the compressed air.

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02/27/2008 1:59 PM

No LPG is the fuel the oxygen in the air is whats need for it to burn. If you mix the two all you would be doing is supply less fuel. The fuel amount would remain the same to provide the same amount heat.

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02/28/2008 12:43 AM

Both of the answers prior to mine agree, the answer is NO!. But neither of them pointed out a MAJOR problem. Once you mix the LPG with air, you have a flammable mixture. if your flame somehow gets past the orifice into the pipe carrying the mixture, it can then burn all the way back to the point where you mix the air and LPG. If you have a tank of this mixture, you literally have a BOMB. Pure LPG, either as a liquid or as a gas, can't burn until it gets mixed with oxygen of one form or another, so there is no danger of burning back into the pipes.

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02/28/2008 4:15 AM

Yours was the answer that everyone else forgot!!!

Well done and its nice to see a fellow "Safe Worker".....

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02/28/2008 7:11 AM

♣ The true name for LPG is: Liquefied Petroleum Gas, not liqified petroluem gasoline.

♣ The air used in burning must be adapted to suit the optimum air/fuel ratio, therefore no way to increase the air except to the optimum figure.

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02/28/2008 10:26 AM

It is always safer to mix the air and fuel at the burner. If you have a back pressure or a suck back situation then the fuel/air mixture may be at the explosive state and your supply piping is probably not designed to withstand an internal explosion. The flame will follow the fuel/air mix back into the supply line so you would have to have a shut off valve at the burner in addition to the shut off valve in your gas train.

And no you will not save any fuel.

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02/28/2008 5:51 PM

Want to save even more?, shut off the LPG valve, and inject compressed air only.

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