Advantages and Disadvantages of Gaseous Fuels

The gaseous fuels are mainly used for heating purposes.

Advantages and disadvantages of gaseous fuels

Advantages	Disadvantages
Gaseous fuel have high calorific value.	High danger of explosion and it may cause large- scale fire.
They posses high thermal efficiency	The occupy large volumes and more space is required for storage.
They are smokeless, easy to ignite and do not leave behind more amount of ash.
They can be distributed over wide area.

Types of gaseous fuels

The most important commercial gaseous fuel are as follows:

Primary fuels: Natural gas.

Secondary fuels: LPG, coal gas, wood gas, producer gas, water gas, oil gas and refinery gas.

Primary gaseous fuels

Secondary gaseous fuels

Natural gas

(i) Cooking gas(LPG)

(ii) Producer gas

(iii) Coal gas

It is a mixture of CO, CO₂, H₂, N₂, CH₄, O₂ and unsaturated hydrocarbons like C₂ H₄ , C₂ H₂, G₆ H₆etc.
It is obtained from coal.

(iv) Gobar gas

(v) Biogas

It is produced by the degradation of biological matters and by the bacterial action in the absence of free oxygen.
Biogas can also be produced from sewage and other organic wastes.

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