How does a Never M-T Natural Gas Pressure Booster System work?

G-TEC Never M-T Systems use a Refueler and Adsorbed Natural Gas Cylinder to economically supply all the gas your torch needs, whether a lot or a little.

​

The Refueler system connects to a standard low-pressure utility gas pipe and fills one or more cylinders to 275 psi then shuts itself off. The cylinders use a regulator to reduce pressure from 275 psi to whatever pressure your application requires. When you light your torch gas flows from the cylinder(s) and as you work the gas level in the cylinders falls. At either 170 psi (Refueler 60) or 225 psi (Refueler 180) the Refueler turns itself back on, refills the cylinders to 275 psi, then turn itself off again.

​

Once started the process is fully automatic and will repeat over and over as long as the Refueler is not turned off - it is like having a cylinder that never runs out of gas.

​

When is a Never M-T Natural Gas Pressure Booster System a better choice instead of a Torch Booster?

Torch Boosters are designed for applications like cutting plate steel, thermal spray and brazing where the gas flow volume requirement is steady all day, the torches use gas at about the same rate hour after hour. Since Torch Boosters do not store any gas they run all the time and must be sized for the highest gas flow volume an application might use.

​

Other applications run in cycles and the gas flow volume requirement can vary during the cycle. Thermal deburring and removing flashings from injection molded parts go through a number of steps and gas may only be used for a few seconds during a 2 minute cycle. Other applications like scientific glassblowing normally use gas at low flow volumes most of the time but sometimes need high flow volumes for a few minutes.

​

In these applications a Torch Booster would be running all the time even though gas is used only a small part of the time. You would need a larger, more expensive, Torch Booster to meet a high flow requirement that occurs less than 10% of the time.

​

A Never M-T System balances cost and performance because it can meet the demand for high flow gas when needed but the compressor only runs when the cylinders are being refilled. In addition to putting less wear and tear on the compressor a Never M-T System is often much less expensive than the Torch Booster that would be required to supply peak gas flow volumes.