Improved Treatment of Acetylene Gas for Preventing the Deposit of Solid Carbon therefrom when Burning.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 24th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 21st Jan., 1899
HORGRADECITICATIUN.
Improved Treatment of Acetylene Gas for Preventing the Deposit
of Solid Carbon therefrom when Burning.
I, EUGEN GUROVITS, of I Auersberg Strasse No. 4, Vienna, Austria, Chemist,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The attempts hitherto made of manufacturing acetylene gas that shall burn
without solid deposit of carbon, have, as is well known not given a practically
useful result, because, on the one hand, the special construction of burner pro-
posed for attaining the said purpose have not been found to answer on account
of the orifices becoming rapidly clogged with carbon deposit, and on the other hand
the method proposed for preventing the deposit of carbon by the admixture of
large quantities such as 40 to 50 p.c. of an inert gas, results in a considerable
diminution of the illuminating power of the acetylene gas.
The present invention relates to a method of producing acetylene gas that will
burn without deposit of solid carbon, which consists in mixing with the acetylene
small quantities such as 0.4 to 1 p.e. of an oxidising gas.
Having regard to high combustion heat of acetylene and the heating of the
burner effected thereby, gases may be employed as possessing an oxydising action
according to this invention, which only exercise such oxydising action at high
temperatures, such as carbon dioxide. Also atmospheric air may be employed
according to this invention without risk as oxydising medium as the quantity of
the medium to be mixed with the acetylene is only very small, and consequently
quite insufficient for producing an explosion.
For practically carrying out the process above referred to the gas having
oxydising action can be mixed with the acetylene either at the point of combustion
in order there to be brought to the requisite temperature for having the desired
effect, or the gas can be introduced into the apparatus for generating the acetylene,
in order to be there mixed therewith before passing to the burner.
Dated this 24th day of March 1808
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improved Treatment of Acetylene Gas for Preventing the Deposit
of Solid Carbon therefrom when Burning.
I, EUGEN GUROVITS, of I Auersberg Strasse No. 4, Vienna, Austria, Chemist,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
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page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The attempts hitherto made of manufacturing acetylene gas that shall burn
without solid deposit of carbon, have, as is well known, not given a practically
useful result, because, on the one hand, the special construction of burner pro-
posed for attaining the said purpose have not been found to answer on account
of the orifices becoming rapidly clogged with carbon deposit, and on the other hand
the method proposed for preventing the deposit of carbon by the admixture of
large quantities such as 40 to 50 p.c. of an inert gas, results in a considerable
liminution of the illuminating power of the acetylene gas.
The present invention relates to a method of producing acetylene gas that will
burn without deposit of solid carbon, which consists in mixing with the acetylene
small quantities, namely from 0.4 to 1 p.c. of an oxidising gas.
Having regard to high combustion heat of acetylene and the heating of the
burner effected thereby, gases may be employed as possessing an oxydising action
according to this invention, which only exercise such oxydising action at high
temperatures, such as carbon dioxide. Also atmospheric air may be employed
according to this invention without risk as oxydising medium as the quantity of
the medium to be mixed with the acetylene is only very small, and consequently
quite insufficient for producing an explosion.
For practically carrying out the process above referred to, the gas having
oxydising action can be mixed with the acetylene either at the burner in order
there to be brought to the requisite temperature for having the desired effect, or the
gas can be introduced into the apparatus for generating the acetylene, in order to
be there mixed therewith before passing to the burner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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The improved treatment of acetylene gas for preventing the deposit of solid
carbon therefrom when burning, which consists in mixing with the acetylene small
quantities varying from 0.4 to per cent. of an oxydising gas of any known kind,
such admixture being effected either in the gas generator or in the burner, sub-
stantially as described.
Dotad this 91th dow of Navambar 1900