Panificadora Emanuel: repeated oven gas-consumption results
Across three oxyhydrogen-assisted production cycles on a metered industrial bakery oven, average natural-gas consumption was 27.6% lower than the natural-gas-only baseline, while average baking time was 3.5% shorter.
Field testing on a metered Mecanomega 2 industrial bakery oven compared natural-gas-only operation with on-site oxyhydrogen assistance. The latest production dataset adds three repeated hamburger baking cycles to the earlier heating comparison.
ElectrolyzerW installation beside the Mecanomega 2 oven burner in Bogotá, Colombia.
Repeated production-cycle results
The comparison used one natural-gas-only hamburger baking cycle as the baseline and three oxyhydrogen-assisted cycles. Every assisted run used less natural gas than the baseline.
Natural gas only
- Gas consumed
- 2.746 m³
- Baking time
- 663 seconds
- Product
- Hamburger buns
Natural gas + oxyhydrogen
- Average gas consumed
- 1.989 m³
- Average baking time
- 640 seconds
- Measured gas range
- 1.957–2.036 m³
Measured outcome
- 27.6% average reduction in natural-gas consumption versus the baseline cycle.
- 3.5% shorter average baking time—640 seconds versus 663 seconds.
- 28.7% best gas reduction among the three assisted runs.
- 11.8% best time improvement—585 seconds versus 663 seconds.
- Two of the three assisted cycles finished faster than the natural-gas-only baseline.
Earlier heating and croissant-baking comparisons
Earlier tests recorded additional time improvements under different protocols. They are reported separately from the newer repeated hamburger-cycle dataset because the products, endpoints, and operating conditions differed.
Oven heating event
- Natural gas only
- 7 minutes
- Natural gas + oxyhydrogen
- 4 minutes
- Time reduction
- 42.9%
- Gas reduction
- 16.7%
Croissant baking test
- Natural gas only
- 19.5 minutes
- Natural gas + oxyhydrogen
- 15 minutes
- Time reduction
- 23.1%
- Time saved
- 4.5 minutes
The croissant comparison also recorded natural-gas consumption of 2.673 m³ without assistance and 2.379 m³ with assistance—an 11.0% reduction for that measured batch.
What the results support
The repeated production cycles provide stronger evidence than a single demonstration: all three assisted runs reduced gas consumption by approximately 26–29%. The dataset supports continued controlled evaluation of oxyhydrogen-assisted combustion as a retrofit approach for suitable industrial ovens.
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