January 30th, 2007-the date of the horrible, propane-fueled explosion that destroyed Little General Store gas station and convenience store in Ghent, West Virginia. This tragic event was the outcome of a routine gas exchange gone horribly wrong, claiming the lives of four people and injuring six others. The incident’s origins lie in 1994, when a 500-gallon propane gas tank was installed against the back outer wall of the building by the Southern Sun gas company (later purchased and changed to Ferrellgas
same way gasoline is refined from crude oil (Grabianowski, 2005). There are two main types of LPG are butane and propane. They are only used in their pure form for test purposes, and are supplied as commercial butane or commercial propane, which are mixtures of the gas with other gases added to improve the working characteristics (Treloar, 2010). The advantages of LPG gas are most of propane comes from domestic sources, less expensive than gasoline and potentially lower toxic, carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon
The fire and explosion at the ConocoPhillips Humber Refinery (16 April 2001) A formal report was made for the incident by COMAH and ConocoPhillips detailing the whole event and the response and action at the time. The events that took place are as follows: On 16 April 2001 an explosion occurred at ConocoPhillips Humber Refinery after the failure of an overhead pipe. An investigation was launched on the incident, which is required under Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) regulations, by the
declared a State of Emergency for Wisconsin on January 25, 2014, for the propane shortage. The shortage is a major concern because there are approximately 250,000 people, in Wisconsin, who rely on propane to heat and run appliances in their homes. The three reasons given for the propane shortage include the below average winter temperatures, pipeline maintenance in late fall to early winter, and a wet fall increasing propane consumption to manually dry crops (Governor Scott Walker's Office, 2014)
temperature. This lab will be conducted in order to create a chemical reaction by changing the reaction rate of a substance. In order to change the reaction rate, a catalyst needs to be added.in this case the catalyst in a hydrogen ion. Iodine and propane will be mixed and then catalyzed by the hydrogen ions, in turn helping to change the rate of the reaction. Some terms and ideas that will explored in this experiment are the rate of a chemical reaction and seeing how it is affected by the concentration
Both gasoline and ethanol have been around since the time of Henry Ford. Gasoline has been the more accessible of all of them. Ethanol and natural gas have been gaining more support over the years and now gasoline contains ten percent ethanol. Propane is mostly used in fleet vehicles. Cars today can run on gasoline with a little ethanol, but too much ethanol can severely damage a vehicle. Only flex fuel vehicles can handle more than ten percent ethanol in a system. Natural gas vehicles are starting
is still cooking with open flames outdoors. We will be taking a look into one of the technological advances in grilling. Food technology has taken over the grill; The Fiesta Blue Ember iQue Liquid Propane Gas Grill, a grill with a computer, was not a success. The Fiesta Blue Ember iQue Liquid Propane Gas Grill In order to understand why there are so many styles of barbecue grills (pits) we first need to understand the meaning of barbecue grill and barbecue pit. According to Dictionary.com a barbecue
Fractionation Unit Purpose of the Unit The Fractionation Unit supplies ethane and propane, at the required purity, as make up to the refrigeration cycles. In addition, methane is sent to the HP fuel gas system and pentane to the LP fuel gas system. NGLs are re-injected into the LNG product and hydrocarbon condensate is produced to the required vapour pressure and directed to storage. Process Introduction The Fractionation Unit consists of four fractionation columns in series: • a De-methaniser
Personal Sales Profile A personal sales profile will help define my position in AmeriGas and the company’s products/services. The profile will determine the selling that is involved with a particular position and what types of clients I will be working with every day. A personal sales philosophy will establish who I am as a sales person and what a selling relationship means to me. It will also determine my code of ethics when it comes to selling AmeriGas’s products/services. The strengths
What would you use sauna heaters for? Sauna heaters are great for relaxing muscles and joints. Many people use them to rid the body of toxins. Some use it for an overall body and mind therapy. This was one way the sauna was used in an animated series King of the Hill. On the program a new age native American has a sauna set up where he charges people to enter the sauna and allow the steam to release the toxins from the body and the mind. As the men are in the sauna sweating they all start having
questions are discussed in further detail with a conclusion of noteworthy facts surrounding this case following. The training facility that Giffels firm was contracted to do civil engineering work for had recently switched from using jet fuel to liquid propane to prevent soil contamination. While this was a solution to environmental concerns it created new problems that Giffels found to be unaddressed with the lack of a design analysis for any safety systems. Even though his firm was only required to do
Gas grills are ideal for year-round cooking and the perfect option when you crave the smoky flavor of outdoor grilling. A great grill serves as the focal point for well-planned backyard parties and impromptu family barbecues, and the best will last for many years. We have searched near and far to bring you five of the best grills available today - check out all the features and pick the one that you can’t grill without! Char-Broil® Classic 4-Burner Gas Grill 40,000 BTU This Classic Char-Broil®
attended to for “___” years. Battery. batteries have been the new power substitute. However, batteries are unable to hold much energy. The battery has not been tested for long-term effects. Works Cited Cao, Jian-hua, et al. "Separation Of Propane From Propane/Nitrogen Mixtures Using Pdms Composite Membranes By Vapour Permeation." Chinese Journal Of Polymer Science (World Scientific Publishing Company) 27.5 (2009): 621-627. Academic Search Premier. Web. 13 May 2014. Kilkenny, Niall. "Who Killed the
At the center of the photograph is a single drop of maple syrup. It dangles from the square corner of a pumpkin ginger waffle that is nothing short of what chef Alton Brown calls “golden brown and delicious” or GBD for short. A fork is whisking away that syrup-drenched waffle corner as the rest of the waffles await consumption below. The image is nothing short of breathtaking, and it is the work of the author of the Always with Butter food blog. Always with Butter is one of thousands of food blogs
On April 20, 1999, within the tiny, suburban city of Littleton, Colorado, two high-school seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, enacted a full-scale assault on columbine high school throughout the middle of the school day. The boys' idea was to kill many of their colleagues. With guns, knives, and a large number of bombs, the two boys walked the hallways and killed. Once the day was done, twelve students, one teacher, as well as the two murderers were dead; and 21 of them were wounded. The haunting
Investigation of the heat energy produced by combustion of various Alcohols Aim: ---- To investigate how different alcohols produce different amounts of heat energy through combustion. I will be heating water using different alcohols as fuels and measuring the amount of fuel consumed. From working out how much fuel has been used I can work out how much bond energy has released from the molecules of the alcohol. From those results I will be able to say which alcohol is the best for combustion and
when one of our horses loses a shoe. Half the porch is cluttered with tools, shovels jacks, chains, shoeing equipment and an axe. The other half is full of firewood. The only electric thing in the cabin is the phone. Propane or wood runs everything else. There is only one propane light in the cabin. To light the rest we use Coleman lanterns. There isn't any running water in the cabin so we have to haul water. The floor to the cabin is made out of scrap lumber. It used to be rough, but has been
Oxygen and Heat, but we also need something that will burn - this is our Fuel. Fuels can take almost any form: Solids like wood, fabric, rubber and plastic. Liquids such as petrol, oil, cooking oil or even nail varnish remover. Gases like propane, butane and 'natural' gas. If a fire broke out in your home today, would you automatically know which fire extinguisher to use? What would happen if you used a Class A fire extinguisher on a fire in the electrical service panel in your basement
They wanted to be bigger and better than both of those, not caring how many people they killed. Their plan was called “Judgment Day” that would have the school excited with explosions (Cullen 33). Eric had made homemade bombs using, “standard propane tanks, the fat, white ones, eighteen inches tall, a foot in diameter, packing some twenty pounds of highly explosive gas” (Cullen 33). These bombs were going to kill many people, and Eric was excited. Next, they came up with a bomb tha... ...
Science and technology have been a big part in how we have grown economically and has enhanced our living standards tremendously. Science and technology grows and progresses very fast and that brings great benefits to us. “For example, the development of transportation has dramatically extended the range of human activities, genome research makes personalized medicine possible, and the advancement of information and communications technology (ICT) has minimized time and distance in communications