Show u I OIL SHALE SHAE MEN I 1 COME COMETO TO LIFE Colorado Operators to Commence Corn Com hence mence Operations Soon Colorado owners of or oil 01 shale lands are beginning in to wake up and auth do things From Grand Orand Jun Junction Uon comes the following story tor of ot some o of l their activities acU Tests be begun un Tuesday of oC this eel weel of or orthe the plant erected 1 by the Galloupe Galloupe Gal- Gal loupe Shalo Process company compan and which were condu conducted tc during during Tuesday afternoon with wih the greatest success I were continued the following da day an and were viewed b by oil 01 shale men mem from over over Colora Colorado o and the west In general As a result of oc of the thorough h tests to which tho the plant has been subjected sub sub- during the week it is the expressed ex- ex ex- ex pressed opinion of oC oil 01 shale men who have havo been almost constant constantly present I that the lie plant plan has tho the greatest comI commercial com corn mercial possibilities and that in efficiency efficiency efi- efi effi effi- I It ft far eclipses anything of the tho 1 kind previously pre attempted The salient features of oC die ho new neis' process arc pointed point point- ed out as leing Its Ia simplicity of construction con con- the rapidity with which the shale is treated Its Is possibilities of op operation op- op in a section ecton where water is to Lo be hind had had and the tho fact tact that a plant or commercial size of oC this pattern can be bo erected at a cost far below previous s estimates Mr 11 Galloupe the inventor of ot the present plant profited by 0 the exper lence gained d J in the erection of or two previous ious plants While in a a way wa- watho tho the same system is followed the tho present one contains contain Improvements that will wll wil Increase e the output yet reduce the operating cost Mr Ir has now devoted a number of or years to a stud study tul of oC nn and the production of ot oil al from them the present plant being the culmination of oC the thought and study and work devoted d to the question queston orth Goldsworthy and YI Wilkinson Wilkin Wilkin- ln- ln son on who financed nce the erection of at the lie experimental plant and who with wih Mr 11 Galloupe compose the Galloupe Shale Process company have received many con congratulations rn upon the success o otheir of oC their venture Scottish UnI d Preliminary tests made of oC the ol oil 01 to be b. b found over o er this district showed th the necessity of or diverging in from front the old Scottish process of at tion ton ion because of the tho richness of oC the local shale n nd the Impossibility o of oC working them la in In a mass as Is done b bv by the Scotch process The rue continuous lone ous m feed teed process was therefore ol o evolved This not only solves the queston ques ques- tion ton iou of or rapidity of ot as the shale is kept con constantly tant on the move mo while in iii the retort passing through In some five tivo or six alx minutes but also solves that of oC fuel economy econom as there thieve is but a narrow alrow space through which the shale must pass pass- the heat bein being Applied d on all al Hides sides of it Instead o ot of being driven to the cent center r of or a 3 lar large c mass of oC shale hale as IB lR necessary In the theold theold old retorts l i hUe bile several w ral hours were necessary for fOl the lw hue reduction of a f charge charac of or shale by iti t processes all al of or the thc oi oil 01 b by modern tr process is obtained In a few minutes tho residue from the tests made this week v being shown to contain con con- tam tain no oil whatever With the speed in Iii now attained and the frequent fre fre- quent fractionations It has been found also that a greater volume o of oil Is obtained as the lighter volatile elements are conserved as oil instead of becoming a fixed gas where values are practically lost In the new Galloupe process the retort has both an inner and an outer cylinder with a space of some somo three inches Through this space the crushed shale must pass under a constant agitation preventing any cok cok- lag ing The shale is carried rapIdly through the retort by these agitators Prominent business men of Sydney have subscribed capital to bring Australia Aus within flying hours of London Lon Lonu- don by mail service |