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liquefied petroleum gas

[′lik·wə‚fīd pə′trō·lē·əm ¦gas]
(materials)
A product of petroleum gases; principally propane and butane, it must be stored under pressure to keep it in a liquid state; it is often stored in metal cylinders (bottled gas) and used as fuel for tractors, trucks, and buses, and as a domestic cooking or heating fuel in rural areas. Abbreviated LPG.
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In terms of application, the North America liquefied petroleum gas market has been broadly classified into residential/commercial, chemical, industrial, auto gas, and others applications of LPG.
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As for the Households that heat their houses, the results showed that 36% of households depend on liquefied petroleum gas as a main source for heating, 35% of households depend on electricity, 26% depend on wood and 2% of households depend on kerosene as a main source for heating.
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Summary: The National Agency for the Energy Use Promotion and Rationalization (APRUE) and the Local Development Bank (BDL) will launch Wednesday the Pro-air programme for the promotion of the LPG-fuel (liquefied petroleum gas)
Party chief Rajnath Singh spoke to chief ministers of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka and asked them to extend relief to consumers after the federal government announced a steep hike in prices of petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas.
In an effort to curb this rapid decline, the UNDP, in partnership with the government and local groups, is promoting the use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)--butane or propane--as an alternative to wood fuel.
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The deal was made through PAA's subsidiary Plains LPG Services, L.P., a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) marketing and asset-based company
Hungary and Croatia, in a bid to decrease reliance on Russian gas, plan to build a 340-km natural gas pipeline between the Adriatic coast and Hungary, and a liquefied petroleum gas terminal on the Adriatic coast.
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The non-naphtha feedstock, such as natural gas liquids (NGL), gas oil, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), provides cost advantages over the conventional naphtha feedstock.
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