producer gas

American  

noun

1. a gas composed of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and nitrogen, obtained by passing air and steam through incandescent coke: used as an industrial fuel, in certain gas engines, and in the manufacture of ammonia.

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producer gas British  

noun

1. Also called: air gas.  a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel See also water gas

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Etymology

Origin of producer gas

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

If we ignore the hydrogen contained in the fuel, the theoretical composition of producer gas would be 33.3% CO and 66.7% N, both by volume and weight.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

He simply fills a twenty-foot tube with briquets made out of soda ash, iron and coke and passes producer gas through the heated tube.

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.

Of producer gas tests, 175 have been made, of which 7 were long-time runs of a week or more in duration, consuming in all 105 tons of coal.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Wilson, Herbert M.

The furnaces can be heated with producer gas in most cases, but when space is of value illuminating gas from a separate source of supply has some compensations.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)

If steam boilers be used, they will be fired with producer gas, and the holders will become simply pressure regulators.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various