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The Beauty of LPG
• Easily separated from crude oil
• It is clean
• Convenient to store and to transport in liquid form
• Easily liquefied
LPG Usage
• Cooking
• Water heating
• Space heating
• Lighting
• Refrigeration
• Air-conditioning
• Restaurants, canteens etc.
• Hotels
• Bakeries
• Laundries and dry cleaners
• Public baths and swimmingpools
• Laboratories
Characteristics
• Mixture
• The physical properties are a function of chemical composition
• Usually not exact
• Pure propane, pure butane, commercial propane, commercial butane
• Liquid and vapour phases
• Colourless
• Odourless if pure
• Normally odorised - distinct, unpleasant
• Slightly anesthetic
Advantages of LPG
• Clean burning, clean fuel, clean combustion products
• Easy to control burning
• Available in portable containers
• Available where piped gas has not been laid
• Flexible for small users deprived of piped gas supply
• Save the customer from monopoly utility suppliers
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