fuel gas
Burns for heat
Fuel gas is any gas burned to produce heat or power.
The term covers natural gas, propane, butane, hydrogen, and various industrial gases used in furnaces, stoves, and engines.
The plant switched from coal to fuel gas.
Fuel gas contrasts with gases used for other purposes, like refrigerants or welding shielding gases.
- gasificationConverting carbon materials to vapor
- butaneFlammable hydrocarbon gas
- propaneFlammable hydrocarbon fuel
- home heatingWarming a residence
- heating oilPetroleum for home furnaces
methane · acetylene · biogas · LPG · hydrogen · cracking · odorant · power generation · refining · chemical synthesis · liquefaction · leak detection · carbon monoxide · compression · pilot light · combustion chamber · purification · utility
- gas mixturesair, biogas, nitrox, compressed air, greenhouse gases
- industrial gasesargon, helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen
- gas processingfractionation, processing plant, NGL, LPG, LNG
- fuel gasespropane, butane, methane, ethane, LNG
- gas weldingoxy-acetylene, welding torch, acetylene torch, cutting torch, oxygen tank
- natural gasBTU, CH4, therm, methane, LNG
fuel gassolid fuel
Burnable material, not fluid
coal · liquid fuel · fuel oil · charcoal · petroleum
fuel gasinert gas
Chemically unreactive element
noble gas · nitrogen · argon · carbon dioxide · helium
fuel gaselectricity
Energy from charged particles
solar power · nuclear energy · hydroelectric power · wind power · geothermal energy