producer gas

American  

noun

1. a gas composed of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and nitrogen, obtained by passing air and steam through incandescent coke: used as an industrial fuel, in certain gas engines, and in the manufacture of ammonia.

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producer gas British  

noun

1. Also called: air gas. a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel See also water gas

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Etymology

Origin of producer gas

First recorded in 1890–95

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Example Sentences

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producer gas

Of producer gas tests, 175 have been made, of which 7 were long-time runs of a week or more in duration, consuming in all 105 tons of coal.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Herbert M. Wilson

We had thus to find a cheap method of eliminating these two gases from the producer gas, and converting them at the same time into their equivalent of hydrogen.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various

If steam boilers be used, they will be fired with producer gas, and the holders will become simply pressure regulators.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

The construction and operation of suction gas producers and producer gas engines.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by R. E. Mathot

The furnaces can be heated with producer gas in most cases, but when space is of value illuminating gas from a separate source of supply has some compensations.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin

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