Acetylene Gas is environmentally safe gas with commercial industrial usages

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Acetylene Gas is environmentally safe gas with commercial industrial usages

Siddharth Jain

Acetylene is made by passing a mixture of steam and air over calcium carbide. Carbide is a combination of calcium and carbon. The calcium and carbon separate in the heating process leaving the gases we all know as acetylene. It is a colorless, flammable gas used primarily for welding, cutting, and heating.

The principal use of acetylene is in the production of large scale vinyl chloride, which is used to make polyvinyl chloride (pvc). Acetylene also is used as a fuel gas, as a blowing agent for styrene-butadiene rubber (cr=po), and as a whipping agent in foods.

Further the garlic like smelling gas is used as a fuel for automobile and truck engines. It is also used to make chemicals such as acetic acid, methyl vinyl ketone, acetyl-acetone, ethyl acetate and acetaldehyde.

Acetylene is a chemical compound with the formula C2H2. The name derives from its empirical formula CH which indicates that it is composed of two carbon atoms and two hydrogen atoms. If a benzene molecule is compressed into the small space of a syn gas cylinder, then cooled again to room temperature, then the newly condensed liquid is analytically indistinguishable from acetylene, except for possibly containing a few percent of added water, depending on how good the vacuum was kept.

Although it is derived from a nonrenewable resource, acetylene is widely considered to be an environmentally safe gas because it is easily oxidized. This also means that it can be safely handled in a variety of industrial processes with minimal or no protective equipment. Acetylene's versatility makes it especially well-suited to purposes such as welding and metallurgy.

In the past, when large quantities of acetylene were needed for welding rods and welding torches, generators were used to make the gas on site. These days a process called fractional distillation is used to prepare acetylene. Acetylene gas can also be made by an improvement of the Schiemann reaction.

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The reputed company is also leading commercial supplier of Medium Pressure Oxygen/ Nitrogen Gas/ Liquid plants, Low Pressure Oxygen/ Nitrogen Gas/ Liquid plants, Medical PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen) Oxygen Plants, VPSA (Vacuum Pressure Swing Adsorption) Oxygen/ Nitrogen Generators, Hi- Tech acetylene plants, Nitrous Oxide Plants, CO2 Plants, Cylinder Filling station etc.

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CRYOGENICS

1) Medium Pressure Oxygen/Nitrogen Gas/Liquid Plants

2) Low Pressure Oxygen/Nitrogen Gas/Liquid Plants

PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION (PSA)

1) PSA/VPSA Oxygen/Nitrogen Generators

INDUSTRIAL GAS PLANTS

1) Hi-tech Acetylene plants

2) Nitrous Oxide plants

3) CO2 plants

4) Cylinder Filling Station