What temperature does propane stop flowing?
Getting a tad nippy out, living here in the TT. Supposed to get down to minus 32C tonight. (about -25.6F) Cooking dinner just now, oven on baking some salmon, furnace trying to keep this thing w...
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"Why do the sides of my propane tank freeze up?"
"As you use the vapor propane (that resides in the top of the tank), the liquid (in the bottom of the tank) begins to release replacement vapors. The liquid propane inside your tank must absorb warmth from the steel walls of your tank in order to convert the liquid to a vapor.
If your vapor withdrawal rate is larger than the liquid conversion rate, the steel will begin to freeze and ice up as the liquid propane is demanding
more and more warmth."
"As you use the vapor propane (that resides in the top of the tank), the liquid (in the bottom of the tank) begins to release replacement vapors. The liquid propane inside your tank must absorb warmth from the steel walls of your tank in order to convert the liquid to a vapor.
If your vapor withdrawal rate is larger than the liquid conversion rate, the steel will begin to freeze and ice up as the liquid propane is demanding
more and more warmth."
