USES OF LPG -


Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) has also been identified as one of the best alternate fuel to Liquified Petroleum Fuels (Petrol etc.). Industries started using it, on account of Pollution free, environmental benefits, being an instantaneous fuel and for cutting purposes making dissolved acetylene obsolete. There are various uses of LPG. Few suggestive uses are:


Agricultural: - Drying, baking & curing:
- Agricultural drying - - Armature baking ovens
- Sweet potato dehydrating - - Asphalt drying
- Hay dryers - - Candy drying
- Soy bean dryers - - Carbon baking
- Peanut dryers - - Cement block or cinder
Air heating - - Block curing
Asphalt melting - - Chemical dryers or Dehydrators
Asphalt Coking still - - Coating drying inside vessels
Ballooning - - Cork products drying
Boiler Firing - - Felt products drying
  - - Gasket curing ovens
Brazing and welding - - Lime baking on wire or rods
Brick yard applications - - Lumber drying kilns
Camp cooking - - Leather drying or curing
Canneries - - Melting kilns & melt ovens
Carbon black applications - - Pecan dryers
Ceramic firing - - Pharmaceutical drying
Cement kilns - - Plastic curing ovens
Chemical plant applications - - Rubber products curing
Citrus grove windmills - - Salt dryers
City buses - - Sludge dehydration
Clay drying (in continuous ovens and towers) - Egg & milk dryer farm applications
Clothes pressing - - Tractors
Coffee, cereal & peanut toasting - - Trucks
Commercial floor scrubbers and polishers - - Irrigation engines
Core ovens - - Combines
Cupola lighting - - Hay bakers
Deep fat frying - - Cotton pickers
Desalination of sea water - - Flame cultivation & weed control
Die casting - - Crop drying
Dining car cooking - - Chick & pig brooding
Direct flame applications: - - Tobacco curing
- Armature testing - - Stock tank heating
- Flame annealing & hardening - - Sterilizing
- Drying by direct flame - - Maple syrupCooking
- Preheating for brazing, welding - - Branding
- Soldering by direct flame - - Cotton drying
- Burn-off paint and other combustibles - - Greenhouse & barn heating
- "Flame curtain" burners for furnace doors - - Meat smoking
Drying after washing - - Orchard heating
- Barrel & drum drying - - Incubation
- Metal parts drying - - Flaming for pests
- Rug drying - - Chicken Singeing
Fork Lift trucks - - Floor mold drying
Fruit ripening - Over the road trucks
Fuel cells & Thermoelectric Generators - Paint drying
Galvanizing - Paper products drying
Gas lights - Piloting large boiler burners
Glass bead fusion towers - Pimento roasting
Glass house applications - Pipe & tube heating
Gypsum cooking kettles - Plate & angle heating furnaces
Gypsum & Fiber board ovens - Plumbing applications
Heating forming presses - Portable floodlight illuminating
Heat treating - Printing press applications:
Heating railroad switches - - Hot air drying of ink on paper,
Household applications: - - Cellophane, glassine, aluminum foil,etc
- Ranges - - Burning off printing rolls
- Water heaters Refrigerators - Pumping oil
- Clothes dryers - Rock heating for steam bathing
- Space heaters - Rock wool melting furnaces
- Central heating systems - Roll paper & roofing heating
- Dishwashers - Rotary dryers & calciners
- Incinerators - Saw mill operations
Ice-cream cone machines - Sewage disposal
Incinerators & crematories - Shoe manufacturing
Infrared cooking - Soap drying
Infrared heating - Solution heating for industrial
Laboratory hot plates - - Washing or cleaning
Laundries - Stand-by electric generators
Lead processing - Steel mill heating furnaces:
Line heaters - - Soaking pits
Lithograph ovens - - Billet or slab-heating furnaces
Low temperature melting: - - Rod-heating furnaces
- Wax melting kettles - Taxicabs
- Grease kettles - Test kilns & fusion furnaces
- Candy kettles - Textile applications:
- Rendering vats - - Tenter frames & dryers
Meat packing - - Tumbler dryers
Metal melting: - - Slashers
- Crucible furnaces - - Carbonizers
- Iron or alloy steel pots or kettles - - Singeing cloth
- Reverbatory furnaces - - Impregnating & coating
Milk pasteurizing - - Ovens
Motorboats - - Loop dryers
Motor vehicles for road building - - Calendar roll dryers
Ore roasting - - Thawing steam & water lines
Ore thawing - - Varnish kettles
- - - Vertical lime kilns


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