Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-08-25
Facts About Natural Gas.

The time TO install the apparatus
for buring natural gas in furnaces
is in the summer and fall. The sooner
it is done the better, as the men who
do this kind of work always have
rush of business along about the
time the first frost comes and 1t may
then be weeks before a properly ex-
perienced man can be secured to do
the job. ef ~ h-l hH
Ony an expert gas filter should be
employed, and the more experience
he has had with natural gas installa-
tions the better. Perhaps the great
est number of serious difficulties en-
countered with natural gas in fur
naees are due to installations that
have been improperly made. 1t is
safe TO say that almost every case in
which the use of natural gas in a
furnace has been a complete failure
and the burners have had 10 be taken
out is due TO this cause.
In an article read before the last
annual meeting of the Natural Gas
Association of America, j. l.. Ma
oney said, for the information of the
gas men there gathered:
"In working with low pressure
steam or hot water boiler or hot air
furnace, or any other appliance de-
manding large supply Of gas 1t is
necessary to know that the meter SER
vice and pipes to location of appli-
ance are of ample size to furnish
gas in sufficient quantity at all times
and under all conditions.
"To obtain the best results from
the start it is necessary to clean a
boiler or furnace of all SCOT and'tash
that may have accumulated in and
about the sections of the boiler or
dome of furnace-this deposit will
naturally be burned off by the gas in
time, but it costs money to do it.
81 have the best success with a
burner so constructed that it will
throw a fiat jet fame ten inches wide
at an angle of As degrees against the
water leg Of the boiler. The size of
the fire box would govern the num-
Der of burners to be used. For the
average installation / would have the
header, in front of the boiler, made
of 2la inch tees, the number of tees
conforming to the number of burners
to be installed. | much prefer one
half inch angle wheel valves for use
at header and one-half inch pipe
from the valve to the mixer, which
is always placed directly under the
burner and in the ash pit.
at is always my aim to have a
fire with plenty of force and vim to
it, the first half inch of the flame a
decided green color, changing to
blue. do. not object to cherry red
ss.sarso AZ INC n.rlnc, Uut wuuil sset
allow of a fire having a yellow coioi
to it.
Unnecessary air should be ex-
cluded from the main combustion
chamber by the use of sheet iron
place between the burners and mix
ers. Enough air can be taken through
the Ia inch mixers to cause proper
combustion. | get best results by
setting the burner about one inch
from the water leg of the boiler and
about one inch above the CRATE line. "
The installation properly made, it
only remains to adjust the dampers
and regulate the fire so as to have a
lively flame, the tongues of which
will travel as far as possible along
the surface of the boiler. This is de-
signed for hot water and steam fur
mace work
| For hot air furnaces, Mr.. Maloney
says:
sin hot air furnace work | select
a three, -four or five-section burner,
according to the size of the furnace
in which the burner y to be placed,
the burner being four inches less in
diameter than the tre pot. | find
that clearance of two inches is de-
sirable at all points between the out
side edge of the burner and the fire
pot. The burner sections must be
heavily east and well bolted together
to keep them from warping.
81 favor a burner that will throw
the flame at a slight upward angle
which prevents the flame striking the
fire pot and rebonnding back and un-
der the burner sections. The burn
er sections should be of good size,
containing large amount of gas at
the point of combustion TO insure a
strong, steady flame, and if too
small will not permit of the fire be-
ing low.
with an ample supply of gas to
any boiler or furnace / have no
trouble in obtaining satisfactory re-
suits