None. Ethyl mercaptan is not used to odorize natural gas. The normal odorant used for natural gas is tertiary butyl mercaptan, which is present at a concentration of approximately 0.5 pound/million standard cubic feet of gas.
Ethyl mercaptan is not an oil.
"Historically, first gas odorization was carried out in Germany in 1880's by Von Quaglio who used ethyl mercaptan for detecting gas leakages of blue water gas."
When produced propane and butane is odorless and colorless. Ethyl mercaptan is the odorant added to propane and butane in the processing and refining process to provide a detectable odor. Under certain conditions the odorant in propane may oxidize and lose its destictive odor. This odor fade can occur in new steel containers when first placed into service and in older steel containers that have been left open to the atmosphere. Air, water, or rust in a propane tank or cylinder can also reduce propane odor concentration. Ethyl mercaptan is toxic although the amount added to propane is non-threatening.
I lived in Denver City, Texas in July 1994 and a pit filled with sulfur which contain mercaptan, as it is found in the production of oil and gas. This pit full of sulfur was the results of Shell Oil Company processing Hydrogen Sulfide Gas into sulfur. this process also contained some Mercaptans (Sulfur plus methane gas molecule). In July 1994 this pit caught on fire with no known cause. The pit was an open pit and if you came close to it you could smell the mercaptans. The official cause was that lightning but if you have ever been around liquid mercaptans you would that it can catch on fire with ease. stallingssd@cox.net Ethyl mercaptan will burn quite readily. It wouldn't be a very good additive for gas if it didn't. It will also autoignite. The temperature required is relatively high. Autoignition is the temperature at which a material will burn when heated to and is typically tested by taking a drop of a material and dropping it into a vessel at a known temperature. If it ignites when it hits the bottom of the vessel, the autoignition temperature has been exceeded. Most sulfur doesn't contain a lot more hydrogen sulfide than they do mercaptan.
Alcohol with high concentrations can be obtained after double or triple distillation of some cereals grains or fruits.
Ethyl mercaptan is not an oil.
Tetrahydrothiophene and amyl mercaptan are examples; but ethyl mercaptan is preferred now.
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"Historically, first gas odorization was carried out in Germany in 1880's by Von Quaglio who used ethyl mercaptan for detecting gas leakages of blue water gas."
Ethyl mercaptan
ethyl mercaptan
ethyl mercaptan
This substance is ethyl mercaptan.
When produced propane and butane is odorless and colorless. Ethyl mercaptan is the odorant added to propane and butane in the processing and refining process to provide a detectable odor. Under certain conditions the odorant in propane may oxidize and lose its destictive odor. This odor fade can occur in new steel containers when first placed into service and in older steel containers that have been left open to the atmosphere. Air, water, or rust in a propane tank or cylinder can also reduce propane odor concentration. Ethyl mercaptan is toxic although the amount added to propane is non-threatening.
ethanithiol ( IUPAC) ethyl mercaptan is added in lpg to detect leakage by the odour.
The mercaptan odor has been added specifically to assist in the detection of leaks. If odor from the gas is noticed, the implication is that you have a leak. Attend to it promptly.