lpg cost per m3, unpressurised.

Russe11

Can any body please give me some market prices for LPG unpressurised per cubic metre?


thanks.

Greenfires

I'm not going to work it out for you - but one volume of liquified LPG will produce about 250 volumes of the gaseous form. One kilo of LP is 1.96 litres.

J_B

Russe11 wrote: »

Can any body please give me some market prices for LPG unpressurised per cubic metre?

Strange question in that you can't buy (can you?) unpressurised LPG, so (as long as I'm right) there isn't a market price.

Russe11

Thats really useful help.

Meter measures unpressurised volume, so thats why I asked.


No idea what the pressurised price is, no idea whats expensive or cheap.

Russe11

Since you can't buy in unpressurised form, what are the prices posters quote on the "bulk lpg" thread.

in ppl, pence per litre?

Greenfires

Yep - that's the one.

J_B

We have a meter on our LPG supply
I asked Avanti, our supplier this ....
[FONT=&quot].... house is metered with a Azbil Kimmon SK25 like one of theses on this website
http://www.mwatechnology.com/gas_meters/diaphragm.php[/FONT]

and they replied thus ...

[FONT=&quot]Good Afternoon Mr B, [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Assuming that the meter is M3 the converting co-efficient is 3.85. Therefore the number of units used multiplied by 3.85 equals the numbers of litres used. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I hope this information is of assistance[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Kind Regards[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A B
[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Avanti Gas Limited[/FONT]

Russe11

Surely if your multiplying by 3.85 then the meter is measuring pressurised volume, that can't be right can it?

oh well still none the wiser now, whats a good price whats a bad price, how much is being used...

Russe11

Greenfires wrote: »

Yep - that's the one.

Thats the one? Pressurised or un pressurised, if you can't by it unpressurised, why are people quoting in that form?

Greenfires

A price litre as in "a litre of liquefied gas" - that's how it's sold.

Greenfires

As regards the response from Avanti - your meter measures cubic metres of lpg in gaseous form - not litres. As I posted earlier on - one volume of liquefied gas will produce about 250 volumes of gaseous gas. So to produce a cubic metre - 1000 litres - you'd need around 4 litres of the liquid form.

The conversion factor they mentioned is a bit different at 3.85 - but ballpark. I just found the conversion from a quick net search. So - your meter measures 10m3 for example - multiply that by 3.85 and you get 38.5 - which is the number of litres of liquid gas that's been used to produce the 10m3 of gaseous gas.

If you're buying lpg - the only figure you need to be concerned with is the price per litre as that's how it's sold and measured.