manufactured gas

noun

1. a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.

Example Sentences

The source of the pollution was the Alexandria Town Gas company, a manufactured gas plant that operated between about 1851 and 1946 and was owned by the city for most of that time.

From Washington Post

A natural creek was converted into the canal in the late 1800s, and until the mid-1900s, coal and manufactured gas plants, paper mills and other industrial businesses casually filled the waterway with pollutants and sewage.

From New York Times

But it is the environmental legacy of a manufactured gas plant near the corner of Fifth Street and Smith Street — operated by Citizens Gas Company and Brooklyn Union Gas for nearly a century until the site was sold in the 1960s — that is the focus of many neighborhood activists.

From New York Times

The plan includes construction of a new affordable complex called Gowanus Green on the site of a former manufactured gas plant.

From New York Times

Currently, the proposed housing site is undergoing cleanup of various hazardous byproducts of manufactured gas, paid for by the public utility company that inherited the problem long ago.

From New York Times