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Show CO.'LTOYfELD fra fuel Ford Expert Perfect New Stilling eProcess DETROIT. Auf. T By A. r Processes ta Incraasa flvafold the amount of motor fuel produced front each Ion of cost will be put Into affect ahortly at tha River Route plant of tha Ford Motor company here. Thla announcement la made by Wallace Campbell, vice president of tha Ford Motor torn-cany torn-cany of Canada. In connection with the start. n of work on a similar plant for distilling benaol from coal, : to ba located at Ford. Ontario. Under tha naw plan low temperature temper-ature distillation will replace tha present high temperature proceed. Preaent methode give M gallons of benrol, TAOO feat of gas. I fallens of tar ad IS compounda of aul- phate ammonia from each ton of coal. Isavlng a resldus of 1140 pounds of coke. l;nder the near procesa, as saplalned by Mr. Campbell. Camp-bell. Ford engineers will obtain 10 fallona ef benaol, 4000 feet of gas. 0 gallons of tar, $ gallons of creosote creo-sote end there will be a reetdue a IfrOO pounds of coks. Creosote Ik net obtained under tbe pressnt method of distillation. It Is estimated that ths low temperature tem-perature dlstlllstlon of coal, ss F tanned, will Increase the value of he product of each ton of coal by U. The River Rouge plant will be able ta distill 40U0 tons of coal a dav, or an increased productivity ef MOO0. while the Canadian die-tlltery die-tlltery wtrr handle 4S4 tone a elay. The lew temperature system Is the result of experiments csrrled oa for the Ford company by Emll Pl-ron. Pl-ron. a New York chemist, snd V. CsrscrlstL a New York consulting engineer. The practicability of the rlan was teated In a demonstration factory recently built at Huutlng-toa. Huutlng-toa. West Vlrgfnla. As soon as the nrerees had bean satisfactorily demonstrated, dem-onstrated, plane were ad for la-stalling la-stalling tha system la Ford plants i ere and la Ca.iada. |