I am still very new to the world of blogging. In that short time, I discovered something. People love ranking lists. The top 10 in just about anything tends to get many views. It makes sense. Lists are easy to read since they are condensed and full of facts. Who wouldn’t like them? So as the adage goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
This week’s blog will be a Top 10 List of Unknown Uses for natural gas. We all know it is used for cooking, heating the home & powering vehicles. So here are some you may have never heard of.
- The Philadelphia Zoo uses natural gas to cool a greenhouse for a rare bird and one of the most endangered species in the world, the Micronesian Kingfisher.
- Ground maintenance is a huge expenditure for any outdoor activity. NFL teams fight the cold weather by warming the football fields with tubes heated with natural gas. This keeps the turf from freezing and allows it to continue its growth in the winter.
- Art and history museums use natural gas-fueled equipment to help maintain the proper humidity for the conservation of art, delicate fabrics, and historical books and papers.
- In the United States, 85% of the raw materials that are used to make a variety of plastic bags come from natural gas.
- Natural Gas has helped the paper industry cut their paper plant fuel bills by 30% and helped reduce carbon emissions by 26%
- The Food Processing Industry is a big natural gas consumer. They use NG in their plants to cook, dry, and pack food.
- Natural gas is the main ingredient in ammonia production. The recent shale boom and low cost of natural gas have created a growth in fertilizer plants. As of 2013, there were 14 proposed plants set to create 12 million tons of fertilizers from natural gas.
- Of the 12 million worldwide consumer CNG vehicles, 250,000 are here in the U.S. Per www.cngnow.com, Chevy, Dodge, Honda, and Ford are beginning to provide conversion kits for current cars and new cars with CNG (compressed natural gas) as a fuel option over gas.
- Natural gas is one of the gases used as a catalyst to create carbon fiber composite. Carbon fibers composite is a lightweight material that can withstand high temperatures and is extremely strong. For this reason, it is used in Formula 1 vehicles, Boeing 787 Dreamliners, and now in everyday passenger vehicles.
- Natural gas burns blue because there is no soot in the flame.
So there it is. Natural gas is all over the place and growing. With all the shale plays here in the United States and horizontal drilling being a proven success, the growth will continue.
Croft Production Systems understands that the future is natural gas. We can help your company process natural gas at the well site so you can run equipment and save money on diesel. All this can be done without any air permits.
https://www.ngadvantage.com/sites/www.ngadvantage.com/files/files/NGA-Case-PaperM3h.pdf
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fertilizer-plants-grow-thanks-to-cheap-natural-gas/
