who invented LPG Gas? can someone give me an article regarding to its creation? PLEASE?

Answer 1

In 1910 Dr. Walter O. Snelling, a chemist and explosives expert for the U.S. Bureau of Mines, was contacted to investigate vapors coming from a gasoline tank vent of a newly purchased Ford Model T. Dr. Snelling filled a glass jug with the gasoline from the Ford Model T and discovered on his way back to the lab that volatile vapors were forming in the jug, causing its cork to repeatedly pop out. He began experimenting with these vaporous gases to find methods to control and hold them. After dividing the gas into its liquid and gaseous components, he learned that propane was one component of the liquefied gas mixture. He soon learned that this propane component could be used for lighting, metal cutting and cooking.

That discovery marked the birth of the propane industry.

Answer 2

LPG is synthesised by refining petroleum or natural gas; it was first produced in 1910 by Dr. Walter Snelling, and the first commercial products appeared in 1912. It currently provides about 3% of the energy consumed in the United States.





Antonio TEVES

Water Fuel Conversion System



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http://www.visayandailystar.com/2006/June/17/negor2.htm
Dumaguete City, Philippines --- Saturday, June 17, 2006

Dumagueteño Invents Alternative Energy Source

by

Juancho Gallarde




A Dumagueteño who invented an alternative source of energy called the Water Fuel Conversion System is hoping that the government will use his invention to address high cost of fuel importation and possible depletion of fossil fuels in the Middle East due to increased demand from developing countries.

Antonio Teves, 87, exhibited his invention, which uses 70 percent water and 30 percent fuel as alternative energy in running power plants during the trade fair of the Visayas Area Business conference in Dumaguete.

Teves said the invention was conceived before the war in 1940 while he was working as a chemist at the Central Azucarera de Bais paper division. He went to the United States where he perfected the prototype and in 1996, got a patent for his invention and another patent the following year in the Philippines.

With the use of his invention, ordinary water will be separated into hydrogen and oxygen, the former to replace the gasoline or diesel fuel.

Teves projected a P3 billion savings for the government with the use of the Water Fuel Conversion System.

The invention, he added, will not go to waste because the National Power Corporation-Small Plant Unit Group diesel power plant in Pilar, Cebu has already installed it and the plant had been operating for two years.

In Siquijor, the system is undergoing final testing for use by the electric cooperative there.

Teves is expected to assist in the installation of the system in all of the 236 engines of NAPOCOR throughout the country.

He said he believed it is high time that government starts to use alternative fuels like hydrogen to prepare for any fuel crisis in the future.

Answer 3

LPG is synthesised by refining petroleum or natural gas; it was first produced in 1910 by Dr. Walter Snelling, and the first commercial products appeared in 1912.

LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) is the generic name for commercial propane and commercial butane. LPG is manufactured during the refining of crude oil, or extracted from oil or gas streams as they emerge from the ground. Commercial Propane predominantly consists of hydrocarbons containing three carbon atoms, mainly propane (C3H8) Commercial Butane predominantly consists of hydrocarbons containing four carbon atoms, mainly n- and iso - butanes (C4H10). They have the special property of becoming liquid at atmospheric temperature if moderately compressed, and reverting to gases when the pressure is sufficiently reduced. Advantage is taken of this property to transport and store these products in the liquid state, in which they are roughly 250 times as dense as they are when gases.