What is the use of Methane gas?

Answer 1

First, Methane [CH4] is a chemical compound composed of four Hydrogen molecules attached to a single Carbon molecule. It is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas at normal temperatures and pressures, and has many beneficial uses.

It is highly flammable, and in the proper mixture percentages mixed within air, it is HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE. For this reason an "odorant" is added so we can smell it if it leaks. The odorant is one or more of the "Mercaptans" [which smell like onion or garlic].

With the exception of a very small amount of contaminants, and the addition of that odorant so we can smell it, Methane is relatively "pure," and we know it by its common name, as "Natural Gas," i.e., Natural Gas is Methane. Just couple of examples of uses include:

Natural Gas is used as a fuel:

• in heating and cooling our homes and businesses,
• cooking,
• electrical power generation,
• and when compressed, used as a vehicle fuel.

Methane [Natural Gas] is also used as a feedstock in petrochemical plants to create many different compounds and products, probably the most commonly known end product is the very large list of PLASTICS, as in the manufacture of plastic bags and the many different polyvinylchlorides which are used in many different types of containers.

Answer 2

Methane is used in various ways Methane is important for electrical generation by burning it as a fuel in a gas turbine or steam boiler.

Methane is used in industrial chemical processes and may be transported as a refrigerated liquid (liquefied natural gas, or LNG).

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Answer 3

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For the foreseeable future, natural gas will continue to be used primarily for residential and commercial heating, electric power generation, and industrial heat processes. Methane can also be extracted from coal, peat, and oil shale, and if these sources can be successfully utilized for methane production, the world's methane supply will be extended another 500 or more years.

The market for methane as a transportation fuel will undoubtedly grow, but improvements in electric vehicles, may well dampen any dramatic increase in natural gas powered engines.

The environmental characteristics of natural gas will certainly retain this fuel's position at the forefront of all fossil fuels. In a broadly historical and environmental perspective, we should recognize that in a period of a few hundred years, human society will have burned as fuel for lighting, cooking and heating a very large percentage of the earth's natural gas supply. The use of methane hydrate may become another future resource, as fuel prices rise.

Answer 4

You can use in cars like gas or in other motorized vehicles You can use in cars like gas or in other motorized vehicles

Answer 5

Methane is the main product of natural gas, which is used on your stove burner

Answer 6

Primarily for burning as "natural gas" and as feedstock to building various more-complex chemicals.

Answer 7

• Methane: in heating and cooling our homes and businesses,
• cooking,
• electrical power generation,
• and when compressed, used as a vehicle fuel.

Answer 8

It is used as fuel gas.