英国煤气公司中部研究所位于伯明输附近的索利哈尔(Solihull)。自研究地成立二十五年以来,它主要研究的内容是生产煤气的一些新方法,以及改善和扩大煤气在工业上的使用。现在成功地用于城市煤气生产以及新近用于代替天然气的几种高压煤气生产方法是全世界有名的。同时该公司在改进烧嘴、炉子和其它加热设备以及自动控制煤气,对提高工业煤气利用率也做出了重大贡献。近几年来,中部研究所的工作人员一直 British Gas’s Central Research Institute is located in Solihull near Birmingham. Since its establishment twenty-five years ago, its main focus has been on some new ways of producing gas and on improving and expanding the industrial use of gas. Several high-pressure gas production methods that are now successfully used for city gas production and recently used to replace natural gas are world famous. At the same time, the company is also making significant contributions to improving industrial gas utilization by improving burners, furnaces and other heating equipment and automatic gas control. In recent years, the staff of Central Research Institute has been