1. Producer gas generated by this method became known as suction gas.2. Producer gas is produced by passing air over red-hot coke.3. In the 1850s, processes for making Producer gas and Water gas from coke were developed. 4. Coke is used as a smokeless fuel and for the manufacture of water gas and producer gas . 5. Another application is the use of producer gas to displace light density fuel oil ( LDO ) in industrial furnaces. 6. The resulting gas mixture is called syngas ( from synthesis gas ) or producer gas and is itself a fuel. 7. Mond gas, developed in the 1850s by Ludwig Mond, was producer gas made from coal instead of coke. 8. The furnaces were heated by water gas and producer gas made on site fed to the furnaces by gas mains. 9. The installation almost certainly used a Water gas or combined Water Gas / Producer gas system to produce gas from coal. 10. Following his formal retirement, he served as director of producer gas vehicles and then Transport Commissioner for the Eastern Region.
Mobile