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Old 09-30-2015, 08:56 PM
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has anyone heard of a new gas called magna gas its like 4000 deg. hotter than acetylene i would assume you would use it more in cutting thicker materials then sheet metal i went to their web site magnagas.com but i was wondering if anyone has used it and is it as good as they say
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Old 09-30-2015, 09:47 PM
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Ed, you aroused my curiosity, and so I went looking. The fact that it's biomass sourced is VERY appealing to me. If it can live up to it's claims and is derived from sludge, I am 120% for it.

http://www.magnegas.eu/how-it-works-content

As for me, from what I found, Magnegas isn't quite ready for my shop at least:

http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/...r-not-its.html

http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/...didnt-say.html

That's not to say that someday it won't be a very viable fuel gas, I hope it can prove itself and become a viable fuel in the future.
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Old 09-30-2015, 10:15 PM
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Seems the fuels gas industry is relentlessly searching still, for a new source of combustible. Propylene came and went. Chemolene came into the limited market. Now this one.

Guessing only here - that they are trying to fasten double-bonded hydrocarbons to another double-bonded gas (methane?) using a thermal arc process - creating a quadruple-bonded high temp fuel gas?
http://www.magnegas.eu/magnegas-file...rocarbon-fuels

But, like acetylene, it has a wide ignition range and a superior burning velocity. Apparently this stallion still needs a thicker lead rope.

I'm guessing the science is sorta similar to this, somewhat?
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo902053t
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