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Show PRODUCE m POWER BY Bill SAWDUST English Manufacturers No Longer Need Sutler From Miners' Strikes. SYSTEM IS EFFECTIVE Vast Amount of Energy Developed De-veloped Through Utilization Utiliza-tion of Waste Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, April 27.- "We are DS loneer interested in, or affected even remotelv by, coal and miners' strike?.'' said the proprietor of one of the largest hot and packing case manufacturing plant? m the whole of London "We get all the power we want on I lie premises prem-ises for nothing The inter'wewer glanced uround in bewilderment at ihe hamming engines developing 200 horsepower, and the scores of men working bnsilj nt trie whirring lathe?, and speculated on the source of all rhi power. "The entire power used in theje works, which have an annual output of tens of thousands of pound.".'' ?aid the proprietor, "is derived from one thing, and one only tiie carbon from common wet sawdust, if air ! excepted!" Gas From Sawdust. A patent gas plant ha SOW been placed on the English market capable of producing not only from sawdust, but also from practically all conibuft-ible conibuft-ible refuse, a u--. greater in power and calorifie velDS, and richer in hydrocarbons, hydro-carbons, than the gas produced from eon I. And the cost of the new fuel for manufacturer who possess uuantities of combustible waste refuse wnich they would otherwise have to destroy is praeticallv nothing. "r have recentlv installed one of these plants." said Mr. I larke of Messrs. Clarke & Co., Groveroed, Bow, who make hundreds of tons of waste sawdust, wood chips and shavings in their business, "and I can oniv say that T am delighted with it. T miniate that whereas my power was lormerly derived from "is made from coal cost-ne cost-ne me about 623 a week, it will now BOSt me nothing at all. 'Since the coal strike hean at least three nf mv friends have announced their intention of installing :milar plants ' ' O. E. Lygo described the new plant: "Tho plant, itself.'' he said, "consists merely of a firebrick-lined generator of sppcial design, with extended feeding hopper, tar extractor and dry scrubber. scrub-ber. The fuel is fed into the generator through the hopper, and the gas generated gene-rated passes upward through an ingeniously ingen-iously arranged ga. washer, which, while cooling it. also extracts any small particles of dust which have been drawn out of the generator bv the suction suc-tion of the engine and B certain portion of the tnr which i present in most waste meteriai. Tar Is Saved. "All the tar which still remain:, jn the gas is completely and effectively extracted ex-tracted bv a rotary tar extractor, and tho gas. after passing through a purifier puri-fier which ffnallv remove? all traces of dust or moisture, is readv for use for anv power or heating purposea "Manufacturers, again, who use this plant obtain as a 'waste from the waste.' so to speak, considerable good tar ererv week, which will go towards paving the cost, of the man to attend to the engine. "An engine capable of developing 100 horsepower pd nnwards costs about .fi,"Q0. and in most eaFe ea-i' repavs the initial outlav within twelvo months. Hence the already large demand de-mand for these plants." Ths following fuels mav be used erpially well in one of these plants: Bark, roir. Indian corn cnbs. dried graes, husks, leaves, manlla waste, sha-rings, spent tanning bark, straw, sugar-cane refuse, gmrfaee peat, wood chips. |