MagneGas™: the New Standard in Metalworking and Welding Fuels
MagneGas™ is rapidly emerging in the global metalworking market as the preferred, high-performance, clean burning, ultra-low emission, lower cost metal cutting and welding fuel. Veteran metalworkers and welders report that MagneGas™ cuts cleaner, faster and deeper with a narrower kerf than any other industrial gas in the market - particularly acetylene.

• MagneGas™ is refined from liquid feedstock that is passed though a plasma arc system delivering an intense electrical current and high temperatures similar to those found in lightening. The process yields a stable, hydrogen-rich gas that has a very high energy density and is very clean burning with none of the carbon soot and noxious fumes associated with acetylene.
• The heat energy in the MagneGas™ flame is concentrated in the primary cones and the secondary flame producing outstanding results with a thermal density in the flame that is hotter than the flames of other cutting fuels. This improved energy density permits smaller, faster and cleaner cuts.
• Independent tests have established that MagneGas™ is the fastest, most precise and most energy efficient cutting fuel available today. The Welding Journal reported about MagneGas that its advantages as a welding fuel are abundant as consumption of fuel is and oxygen is reduced; high quality, clean cuts with less slag, narrower kerfs, not top edge rollover, and smaller heat-affected zone are produced.¹

Acetylene: 19th Century Technology and Hazards
For more than 100 years acetylene (C₂H₂), commonly known as oxyacetylene, has been the world's leading welding and metalworking fuel primarily due to its high flame temperature. But acetylene has many drawbacks:

• Acetylene is highly toxic, emitting heavy carbon soot and noxious fumes when burned.
• Acetylene produces a wide, sloppy cut with a great deal of slag and top edge roll-over
• The most serious shortcoming is that acetylene is very a unstable and volatile gas and cannot be delivered at regulator pressures over 15 PSI. At 27 PSI or above acetylene can spontaneously detonate.
• Finally, acetylene is un-economical. There is a the significant waste factor that is unique to acetylene. All acetylene tanks contain approximately 20% porous filler, typically acetone, as a stabilizer. This means that 20% of the contents of each acetylene cylinder purchased by the customer is returned to the distributor as un-used gas still in the tank; a loss of $15 to $18 per cylinder for the porous filler/stabilizer.

1 Converting Waste into a Welding and Cutting Fuel, The Welding Journal August 2009