Just out of curiosity

[Mad Doug Biker]

When a gas fire burns, how close is it it to burning incompletely and causing Carbon Monoxide??

I presume there are a lot of safety procedures to go through, but how easily can it all go wrong?
I suppose what I'm saying is 'How easy is it to produce Carbon Monoxide?'

Just out of curiosity, like (I see these gas fires and wonder you see).

 

[gbb]

I may be wrong but I thought carbon monoxide was a normally produced by product of the burning process .... Ie it's always there. The danger is when the ventilation/ flueing is insufficient .

 

[tyred]

I always thought i was when it the fuel was burnt with insufficient oxygen that caused the CO to be formed.

Didn't French farmers develop a method of burning charcoal in an oxygen starved environment to create CO rather than CO2 and then used the gas to power their normally petrol powered tractors due to oil shortages during WW2?

 

[Fnaar]

Didn't French farmers develop a method of burning charcoal in an oxygen starved environment to create CO rather than CO2 and then used the gas to power their normally petrol powered tractors due to oil shortages during WW2?

*music hall comedian mode* I say, I say, I say, did you hear about the French farmer who developed a method of burning charcoal in an oxygen starved environment to create CO rather than CO2, and then used the gas to power their normally petrol powered tractors due to oil shortages during WW2?

Neither did I, but I'm sure it was an absolute gas

 

[classic33]

http://www.nutramed.com/environment/monoxide.htm
http://www.nationalfurnace.com/advice.htm

 

[Hover Fly]

I always thought i was when it the fuel was burnt with insufficient oxygen that caused the CO to be formed.

Didn't French farmers develop a method of burning charcoal in an oxygen starved environment to create CO rather than CO2 and then used the gas to power their normally petrol powered tractors due to oil shortages during WW2?

Sort of, it was "producer gas" also known as "woodgas" a mixture of hydrogen and CO that was produced from wood in a cylinder thing attached to the vehicle (not just tractors).

 

[Nihal]

When a gas fire burns, how close is it it to burning incompletely and causing Carbon Monoxide??

I presume there are a lot of safety procedures to go through, but how easily can it all go wrong?
I suppose what I'm saying is 'How easy is it to produce Carbon Monoxide?'

Just out of curiosity, like (I see these gas fires and wonder you see).

Gas (LPG or Natural) burning usually never produces tracable amounts of CO(unless its a speacial one like yours)
If you want to get a feel of being smoked by CO go in front of a tractor's exhaust pipe and ask the driver to start the engines.If you survive those few seconds or more,we can all be sure that you later died of a serious lung diease.
And uuuuuuuuum... youre the first genius to stare at a burner and wonder about them.Maybe one day you'll creat the Three(or more)Laws of Arsonists(or maybe something less violent to do with fire),Just like that other genius ..........th..that guy who made those three laws of gravi ........never mind

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Yes yes, very good, cheeky sod!
I was a bit vague with my question, I know, but I think I've have found what I was really looking for elsewhere anyway.

 

[classic33]

Yes yes, very good, cheeky sod!
I was a bit vague with my question, I know, but I think I've have found what I was really looking for elsewhere anyway.

Where & whats the answer?

 

[Nihal]

Where & whats the answer?

He doesn't know it he' s just bluffing

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

If I told you, I'd then have to kill you!

 

[Nihal]

If I told you, I'd then have to kill you!

Why is it such a secret that other humans would die hearing??????????

 

[classic33]

If I told you, I'd then have to kill you!

You'd have to find me first. You can however tell me where & what the answer is on here.