Industrial gas
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Industrial gas is a group of gases that are commercially manufactured and sold for uses in other applications. These gases are mainly used in an industrial processes, such as steelmaking, medical applications, fertilizer, semiconductors, etc,. They may be both organic and inorganic, are produced by extraction from the air by a process of separation or are produced by chemical synthesis, and will take various forms such as compressed, liquid, or solid.
Types of industrial gases:
- acetylene (C2H2)
- carbon dioxide (CO2)
- carbon monoxide (CO)
- chlorine (Cl2)
- hydrogen (H2)
- hydrogen chloride (HCl)
- methane (CH4)
- nitrous oxide (N2O)
- propane (C3H8)
- sulphur dioxide (SO2)
- Air gases
- Rare gases
Applications:
- Chemical industry
- Cutting and welding
- Environmental protection
- Food
- Gases for breathing
- Gases for safety and inerting
- Glass, ceramics, other minerals
- Medicinal gases
- Metallurgy
- Rubber, plastics, paint
- Semiconductor industry
- Water treatment
Distribution:
- Pipelines
- Bulk transport (truck, rail, ship)
- Cylinders (welding-acetylene torch, breathing, soda fountain)
Companies in the industrial gas business:
- Adsorptech Inc.
- AGA AB (part of The Linde Group)
- Airgas [1]
- Air Liquide
- Air Products and Chemicals [2]
- Air Water
- BASF
- BOC (part of The Linde Group)
- InterGas
- The Linde Group[3] (formerly Linde AG)
- Praxair [4]
[edit] External links
- Asian Industrial Gases Association (AIGA)
- Compressed Gas Association (CGA)
- European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA)
- Japanese Industrial Gases Association (JIGA)
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