Coal gas is a flammable gaseous fuel made from coal and supplied to the user via a piped distribution system.
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16 Facts About Town gas
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Town gas is a more general term referring to manufactured gaseous fuels produced for sale to consumers and municipalities.
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Town gas was supplied to households via municipally owned piped distribution systems.
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The illuminating power of a Town gas was related to amount of soot-forming hydrocarbons dissolved in it.
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Producer Town gas is made by blowing air through an incandescent fuel bed in a Town gas producer.
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Blue water Town gas lacked illuminants; it would not burn with a luminous flame in a simple fishtail Town gas jet as existed prior to the invention of the Welsbach mantle in the 1890s.
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Decline of coal as a feedstock for town gas production using carbonisation is demonstrated in this graph.
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The catalytic rich gas process used natural gas as a feedstock to manufacture town gas.
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The development of more efficient Town gas fires assisted Town gas to resist competition in the market for room heating.
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In 1959 the Gas Council in Great Britain demonstrated that liquid natural Town gas could be transported safely, efficiently and economically over long distances by sea.
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All the Town gas-using equipment of almost thirteen million domestic, four hundred thousand commercial, and sixty thousand industrial customers were converted.
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The UK town gas industry died in 1987 when operations ceased at the last town gas manufacturing plants in Northern Ireland.
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Poisoning from natural Town gas appliances is only due to incomplete combustion, which creates CO, and flue leaks to living accommodation.
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By-products of coal Town gas manufacture included coke, coal tar, sulfur and ammonia and these were all useful products.
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Coal Town gas was initially manufactured by independent companies but in the United Kingdom many of these later became municipal services.
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