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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pianotuna wrote:
Hi Bob,
Propane boils at -42 C. However at -40 it doesn't boil too fast at all.
As it boils it cools the tank. When it is -35 there is not much heat that the tank can extract from the ambient, so it is quite possible for the tank to below the temperature it is being stored in.
I agree that the tank contents will be a lot colder than the outside air. I was in Laughlin NV around Thanksgiving in 1987, and the propane tank was about 30' long and 5 or 6' diameter. The bottom half of the tank was solid ice about 2" thick. I would guess the Riverside Hotel was using propane pretty quickly. Probably would help to have a electric heater inside the commercial sized tank to improve the tank pressure.
Fred.
