Reliable, Safe, & Responsive Propane Services for Your Industrial Needs.
Reliable, Safe, & Responsive Propane Services for Your Industrial Needs.
INDUSTRIAL PROPANE
Serving commercial and industrial propane users throughout Central and Shoreline Connecticut
We understand that your business is unique and we’ll take the time to understand your needs so that we can recommend the right solution, providing you with the most efficient propane system. We pride ourselves in the ability to quickly adapt to your changing needs as your project matures.
Our promise to you: We will provide you with the most efficient propane delivery combined with outstanding customer service.
We have been in business since 1926. We understand business requirements.
Our commercial and industrial customers include churches, schools, apartment complexes, restaurants, nursing homes, contractors, auto body shops, lawn care businesses and other types of industries as well as providing fleet motor fuel for school buses.
For more information contact
David DeTuccio, Jr
General Manager
Propane Division
Daniels Energy
860-912-4271 (cell)
860-342-1200 x-137 (office)
860-342-4203 (fax)
Email: ddetuccio@danielsoil.com
Industrial Uses of Propane
Propane is more than just fuel for outdoor grills. Within the commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors there are many markets in which propane gas is being used for cost efficiency, relability and it's environmentally clean properties. There are hundreds of uses of propane, as this list shows:
Sweet potato dehydrating
Hay dryers
Soybean dryers
Peanut dryers (peanuts in shell) Corn dryers
Tobacco dryers
Dissipating steam vapors
Make-up air systems
Space heating
Sterilizing with hot air (other than cotton seed sterilizing)
Under fired tanks for kettles
Tanks or kettles fired with immersion tubes
“Peel” ovens: direct and indirect brick-set types; portable sheet metal types
Continuous “band” ovens (including long horizontal “traveler” types)
Rotary hearth ovens
“Traveller” overns (close-coupled type, including small reel types)
Vertical reel type ovens
Fire Tube Boilers
HRT boilers with long or short firebox or settings Scotch marine boilers
Package boilers
Oil fields or locomotive-type boilers
Vertical fire tube boilers – large (usually waste heat)
Cast iron sectional boilers
Small vertical boilers (pressing and cleaners, etc.)
Special pilot and safety device arrangements
Box type kiln (flower pots, etc.)
Continuous kilns (including tunnel and progressive kilns)
Dry kilns for brick or tile
Other than ore thawing
Pottery kilns
Decorative tile kilns
Pottery mould drying
Reverberatory furnaces
Drawer type core ovens
Car and rack type core ovens
Continuous core ovens (vertical type)
Shell mould drying ovens
Cotton seed sterilizers
Deep fat kettles fired with immersion tubes, and immersion tubes and recirculation
Die casting pots (including “goose-neck”heaters)
Moulding pots for die casting
Patented die casting machines
Chicken singeing
Armature baking ovens (including coils, windings, etc.)
Soldering by direct flame
Burn-off paint and other combustibles (from conveyer fixtures, scrap metal, etc.)
“Flame curtain” burners for doors of furnaces(usually large)
Armature baking ovens (including coils, windings, etc.)
Asphalt drying (after coating pipe, roofing paper, etc.)
Candy drying (including candy corn)
Carbon baking
Cement block or cinder block curing rooms Chemical dryers or dehydrators (including heavy industrial chemicals)
Coating drying inside vessels (including brewery vats, tank cars, etc.)
Cork products drying
Felt products drying (hats, etc.)
Gasket curing ovens (including brake linings) Line baking on wires or rods
Lumber drying kilns
Leather drying or curing
Melting kilns and malt ovens
Pecan dryers
Pharmaceutical drying (including fine chemicals) Plastic curing ovens
Rubber products curing
Salt dryers and evaporators
Sludge dehydration (brewery slops, sewage waste, etc.)
Barrel and drum drying
Leather drying
Metal parts drying in box-type, conveyor, tumbler, or rotary ovens
Rug and carpet drying
Laundry dryers
Powdered eggs, coffee and milk dryers
Drying floor moulds with air heaters and direct firing
Continuous furnaces (usually fired with recirculating air heater)
Standard box-type forge furnaces
End-heating box-type forge furnaces (including brass drum furnaces, over-and-under fired slot forges and others that have no hearth)
Rotary hearth forge furnaces
High-temperature welding forges (2800 degrees and up)
Ingot forges for heating single large ingots Continuous pusher-type or walking beam forge furnaces
“Drag” furnaces
Small utility forges (including smith’s forges)
Rivet forges
Galvanizing kettles (all types)
Day tanks
Continuous direct-fired tanks, non-regenerative“Deep-eye” pot furnaces
Standby oil burners on regenerative furnaces (including revolving pots)
Continuous direct-fired regenerative
Feeders and forehearths (including fiberglass“noses”)
Special reverberatory furnaces
Annealing lehrs
Decorating lehrs
Plate glass or window glass lehrs
Continuous glazing or fire polishing
Glory holes
Mould preheating ovens
Glass wool curing ovens (including fiberglass curing)
Glass bending
Rice dryers
Corn and seed dryers: tower, rotary drum and small portable types
All types of continuous ovens for drying gypsum, fiberboard shingles, etc.)
Oven or box type furnaces
Continuous annealing or normalizing furnaces Alloy link-belt or wire-belt conveyor-type furnaces for lighter products
Roller-hearth, walking beam, or pusher-type furnaces for heavier products
Car-type annealing or normalizing furnaces used in forge plants, foundaries and steel mills, and for malleable annealing, curbizing for cycle annealing, speheroidizing and homogenizing of large parts
Lead hardening parts and salt baths (including cyanide)
Molten lead, cyanide, or special salts heated in iron, steel, or alloy pots
Rapid-heating-before-quenching or miscellaneous steel parts to carburize and/or harden surface of parts after machining
Wire patenting
Incinerators
Crematories
Fume and smoke incinerators
Foundry ladles (including hand, bull, and mixing ladles, etc.)
Large steel mill ladles (including bull and mixing ladles, etc.)
Large continuous ovens for lithographing cans, closures, etc. (including coating ovens)
Wax melting kettles
Grease kettles
Candy kettles
Rendering vats
Stationary crucible furnaces (including pit types) for melting brass, bronze, aluminum, monel, etc.
Tilting crucible furnaces for melting brass, bronze, aluminum, monel, etc.
Jewelers’ furnace (including assay furnaces)
Small crucibles for melting gold and silver
Crucible retorts with special hoods for melting highly volatile metals
Aluminum melting in pots or kettles Magnesium melting
Lead, antimony, tin and zinc melting pots for melting only, not coating
Tin pots and lead coating pots
Flux tanks
Stereotype pots in newspaper offices
Tilting open-flame melting furnaces for brass, monel, nickel, etc., and sometimes special iron or steel alloys
Box-shaped reverberatory melting furnaces for lead, tin, aluminum, die-casting, metal, zinc, etc.
Large direct-fired “air furnaces” or open hearths(non-regenerative type) used for making malleable iron, smelting nickel ore, etc.“Sweating” furnaces for separating metals ofdifferent melting points
Molding ladles and furnaces (not including die casting)
Cupola forehearths in iron foundaries
Asphalt cooking still (vertical tube type)
Bone charring retort (filter charcoal)
Carbon black applications
Crematorium for mortuaries
High-temperature cement kilns
Cupola lighting
Gypsum cooking kettles (including calcining kettles)
Hog singeing
Ice cream cone machines
Laboratory hot plates
Line heaters (pipeline regulator stations) Piloting large boiler burners
Pimento roasting
Rock heating for steam bath
Rock wool melting furnaces (reverberatory) Roll heating (roofing machinery rolls, paper mill rolls, etc.)
Sewage gas disposal
Small utility furnaces for miscellaneous heating of small shapes
Verticle lime kilns (both slip and stick kilns)
Paint drying with single-flow and recirculating air heaters
Batch-type ovens for paper plates, postage stamps, etc.
Continuous ovens for blueprint paper, paper toys, etc.
Chicken, turkey and other commercially raised fowl
Burning animal waste
Bending, not forging
Plate heating furnaces
Angle heating furnaces
Hot air drying of ink on paper, cellophane, glassine, aluminum foil, etc.
Lithograph ovens for paper
Burning off printing rolls
Rotary sand, gravel, or crushed stone dryers
Rotary calcining kilns or dryers (not including cement kilns) used for drying kaolin, fuller’searth, bauxite, kyanite, etc.
Rotary haydite kilns (lightweight aggregates) High temperature applications (above 220 degrees F.)
Continuous pusher-type
Heating steel for rolling mills
Soaking pits
Billet or slab heating furnaces (including rail heating furnaces)
Rod heating furnaces
Direct-flame smoke house applications used for igniting saw-dust as well as curing meat
Air heater smoke house applications
Soap towers (large volume drying of soap flakes or powder)
Batch-type soap drying ovens
Spray washers and industrial washing machines
Caustic, cleaning, or rinse heating in steel tanks (dip tanks)
Acid solution heating
Water quench tanks with immersion tubes (including all applications in which work enters solution at higher temperature than solution) Solution heating in tanks for circulation through work for cleaning, etc. (other than spray nozzles)
Soaking pits
Slow-cooling pits and furnaces Sheet mill roll heating
Ore thawing
Sintering beds
Ore roasting (not thawing)
High temperature test furnace
Tenter frames (including tenter dryers)
Tumbler dryer (chenille)
Slashers
Carbonizers
Singeing cloth
Impregnating and coating ovens
Loop dryers (including festoon dryers)
Calendar roll drying
Standard varnish kettles
Special large process units
Batch-type vitreous
Car-type vitreous enameling furnaces
Frit smelting furnaces
Frit drying
Dry-off oven for vitreous enameling
Our large reserves of propane keep your propane energy costs lower than the state of Connecticut average.
Call or email Dave DeTuccio at Daniels Propane for a free, no-obligation consultation regarding your propane needs. We will send out one of our knowledgeable Propane representatives to assist you.
