Show OIL SHALE PLANT GETTING UNDER WAY at the monarch shale oil company plant heating of the big retort has been under way for the better part of the week but no high degree of heat has been tried the plant is all ready for starting up as soon as mr ginet inventor of the process used can be present the slow preliminary heating is neches sary however to drive out all the moisture from the brickwork the retort is set in fire brick much like a boiler but the full length combustion chamber under the retort is largely filled with fire brick built up in a series of baffles so that flames from the burning fuel will not touch the retort As fuel oil was not available kerosene is being used for heating but when in regular operation the fixed gas generated by the process will be burned for fuel mining and crushing operations have been started high up on the mountain the crushed shale being delivered to bins at tab tl retort through a four inch pipeline pipe line 1732 feet long laid on the surface down the mountain it is reported to be working satisfactorily delivering the crushed shale at the rate of two tons an hour de B beque e aque new era |