SECTION TWO—]
UQUFIQ) PEIROLEOM GAS MHKIRY
GROWS TO fItOMNENCE IN BRIEF SPIN
Green’s Fuel is a trade name for
liquified petroleum gas, otherwise
termed as compressed gas, natural
gas, LP-gas, bottled gas or tank gas.
Bj whatever name it is called, lique
fied petroleum gas has been one of
the fastest growing industries in the
United States.
Production of this gas for homes
and industry has grown like ragweed
... it is still growing. The principal
reason for its growth is that it pro
vides entirely satisfactory, highly
modem, cooking, water heating, re
frigeration and general heating ser
vice to millions of American families
residing throughout the 48 states.
Industry Expands
Back in the early 20’s, liquefied pe
troleum gas was a waste product that
was flared or weathered off at refin
eries and gasoline plants. As recently
as 1927 there were only 1 million gal
lons of liquefied petroleum gas mar
keted in an entire year. What might
be called an industry was hardly no
ticeable until the middle 30’s when
(1936) there was reported a sales vol
ume of 106,062,000 gallons of lique
fied petroleum gas which sold fo\
about 48 million dollars. Ten years
later: 1.7 billion, worth about 380
million dollars and in 1949, 2,725,000,-
000 gallons of liquefied petroleum gas
were marketed. To emphasize the
magnitude of volume sold in 1949, it
represents about 20 gallons for every
man, woman and child in the United
States.
Industrial plants Use liquefied pe
troleum gas for economy because it
is a clear fuel; it has a constant BTU
content; it is dependable and in its
application, it has the utmost flexi
bility. This is also true with the ap
plication of liquefied petroleum gas
foi domestic use; between high and
low flame, there is an infinity of ad
justments. The instantaneous reac
tion of heat permits reaching peak
performance immediately. It is esti
mated that 78 million individual meals
per day are cooked on liquefied pe
troleum gas.
Used On Farms Too
On the farm, liquefied petroleum
gas is used for household purposes,
for heating brooders and stock water
tanks, supplying the heat for milk
can sterilization, for heating require
ments in any of. the farm buildings
and as a fuel for tractors and other
internal combustion engines used for
power on the farm such as pumping
water for irrigation purposes.
There are about 28 million homes
in the United States that use gas of
•which it is said about 25 per cent are
users of liquefied petroleum gas.
This industry has developed from
practically nothing to the position of
prominence where it stands today. Its
retail distribution is amounting to
more than a half billion dollar busi
ness annually and it is increasing its
importance due to the many new uses
and the many new customers which
it is adding to its services each day. i
The extent of this rapid growth and
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r the strong continued market accept
s | ance supports the belief shared by
1 those within this industry that lique
fied petroleum gas has earned recog
nition as an essential service in this
f nation’s industries, utilities, homes
j and farms and that it has become on
important part of our total economy. \
i New Uses Found j
1 A few of the newer uses for the
1 application of this gas are as fol
• lews:
T Green houses.
Poultry preparation for market.
Dehydration.
> Tobacco curing.
Brazing and carburizing.
Flame cutting and welding.
Heat treating and annealing,
t Ceramic equipment.
Enameling furnaces,
r Laundry and dry cleaning equip
■ ment.
Textile equipment.
t Many times the question is asked,
■ just what is liquefied petroleum gas?
i Liquefied petroleum gas comes out of
• the ground in three ways: (1) in wet
■ natural gas (wet because it is rich in
liquefied petroleum gas); (2) in cas
i ing-head gas, an extremely wet gas
i that comes out of oil wells; and (3) in
• crude oil. From wet and casing-head
i gases, liquefied petroleum gas is ex
: tracted at natural gasoline plants and
; cycling plants. A gasoline plant, for
’ example, by absorption or ermpres
[ sion, separating off the usable frac
tions. The first to come off are meth
. rne and ethane (pipeline natural gas).
; The next to separate off are propane
r and butane which, unlike methane and
. ethane, can be kept in liquid form un
. aer moderate pressures. Most of the
. remainder is a combination of frac
-5 tiens, natural gasoline, which stays as
| a liquid under little pressure and is
. used in the manufacture of motor
. fuel. From crude oil, the extraction
: of liquefied petroleum gas occurs in
. refineries where distillation, therma
j and catalytic cracking processes give
. off light hydrocarbon gases in which
it is present. These are then pro
cessed in the same way as at gasoline
( plants.
The job of delivering the liquefied
• gas from the producers to the dis
: ferent distributors in the field has
. resolved itself, mainly, to three differ
i ent forms of t ransportation; (1) spe
■ rial railway tank cars of which there
• are thousands in movement daily;
• these tank cars are heavily built, in
sulated cars, designed especially for
5 moving liquefied petroleum gas and
f hold, each, a little over 10,000 gal
; Ions; (2) specially designed transport
tank trucks, carrying up to 5,000 gal
! lor.s; (3) ocean going tankers built
f for the transporting of Liquefied Pe
• troleum Gas.
i Huge Carriers
The Natalie O. Warren built by
; Warren Petroleum Corporation is in
; daily use and carries 1,300,000 gallons,
i, Standard Oil Company (N. J.) use
. i two ocean going liquefied petroleum
I gas carriers to transport the gas to
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Brazil where it is very attractive not
only to the owners of lush Rio apart
ments but to inhabitants of jungle as
I well.
All gas delivered to the bulje stor
age plants of the Green’s Fuel organi
zation comes by tank cars. In Polk
. county, for example, there is 150,000
j gallons bulk storage; this is ample to
. take care of the requirements for this
. area under all circumstances. Trucks
, are filled at these storage plants and
3 deliver gas to the container located on
t customer premises quickly and effi
ciently and'without any interruption
jof continuous service. All containers
{carry the underwriters’ label or are
5 stamped with ICC for public protec
tion. ,
Door To Door Gas
Peddlers Disappear
Green’s Fuel—handled by the West
.'em Gas Service in Edenton—is a liq
uefied petroleum gas. Green’s Fuel is
a trade name for this gas in the same
manner that “Standard,” “Sinclair,”
“Gulf”, or “Shell” are trade names
; for gasoline.
i There are several different formu
i las of liquefied petroleum gas. Green’s
. Fuel with its own formula has been
i marketed for the past 18 years,
i It was a small business back in the
[ 1920’5, but liquefied petroleum gas
. has 500 producers, 2,500 distributors,
| 27,000 dealers and 17,000 gas appli
■ ance outlets. It is an important busi
ness and very large in dollar vol
ume of sales. It has not been and
is not being subsidized by the govern
ment. It has stood and is ably stand
ing on its own feet.
The industry started as a surge of
thousands of rugged little entrepre
neurs with a truck and a few hundred
dollars in the bank, peddling gas and
appliances from door to door. As far
as gas was concerned it was a “sal
vage” operation. It was a big busi
ness to the little operators, but just
a by-product to the big operators and
not very exciting. That has all chang
ed. The industry has grown 2,000 per
cent since 1936.
Competitively the industry is fortu
nate. The only other to offer com
. parable service is the electric power
industry.
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i Green's Fuel Used
For Plane Flight
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) A recent illustration on the cover
* of the magazine Flying-A shows the
5 refueling of a Hughes Carburetor
? Company’s airplane by a Green’s Fuel
1 gas truck just prior to the aircraft’s
1 flight back to Oklahoma from Sara
sota.
} The Hughes company, which manu
, factures carburetors that are partic
' ularly adapated for all types of in
ternal combustion engines, has pio
neered in the development of aircraft
transportation with butane and pro
pane gas.
The aircraft flew- to Sarasota fo~
the purpose of demonstrating Ihe
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FOR THE EFFICIENT SERVICE BEING RENDERED
ITS MANY CUSTOMERS IN THIS COMMUNITY
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REZNOR GAS HEATERS FOR EVERY HEATING
NEED. There are four basic Reznor units which will
serve every heating need where forced, warm air circu
lation is required. Selection from these four types will
provide the most efficient heating for commercial, in
dustrial, institutional buildings and residences. Make
your selection today from the new Western Gas Com
pany store.
FOWLER GAS WATER HEATING WITH THE
GLASS LINED, RUST PROOF TANK gives you the
most for your money. You don’t buy a water heater of
ten ... so be sure you get the best. Your Fowler is back
ed by a 15-year prorated warranty. Two coats of glass
like porcelain cover the inside of the tank to protect
against rust and corresion. The one piece tank con
struction eliminates the center flue and baffles. See
Western Gas Company about a Fowler today.
BRILLIANT FIRE GAS HEATERS, the gas heater
line founded on leadership. A product of proved quality
backed by over a century of specialized “know how”.
Brilliant Fire Gas Heaters offer warranted satisfaction
in service. The safety, efficency and dependability of
Brilliant Fire has established the standards by which
gas heater values are measured. See these first line gas
heaters today at the new Western Gas Company store.
feasibility and the more favorable
characteristics of hydro-carbon gases
as fuel for internal combustion en
gines. This demonstration was giv
-1 ei. at the recent Green’s Fuel service
, school which is held each year for the
purpose of training service and tech
nical employees from the four south
eastern states served by that com
pany.
This type of fuel, handled in bulk
as a liquid, has a high inherent oc
tane rating normally 100, but capable
of reaching 125 through blending with
other gases of the same group. Due
to the high octane rating and slow
expansion, compression ratios as high
a& 12 to one are feasible and tests
have shown considerable increase in
power over gasoline when higher com
pression ratios are used on the same
engine.
Contrary to common belief, raising
the compression ratio of an engine
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i does not increase the bearing load.
i Actually, the average bearing load
- can be materially diminished by an in
- crease in compression ratio. This is
> due to the fact that inertia forces in
s engines are almost invariably larger
- than those due to gas pressure.
Butane and propane are ideal for,
- high compression work not only be
cause of high octane rating, - but also
: because of the absence of carbon and
- gum deposits, engineers say.
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i GAS WIDELY AHEAD
; Today liquefied petroleum gas is
r used to heat about two million Ameri
i can homes. Until two or three years
: ago it would have been safe to bet
i that 80 per cent of those homes were
■ below the Mason-Dion Line. Today,
> northern operators are whittling down
that percentage fast.
GREEN’S FUEL IS SAFE