Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-12 | Page 3 | New Smoke Consumer

NEW NEV SMOKE CONSUME Au An Invention of heat Apparent Irae liCIt Heal Value nIno Under Test Experiments are aro now being Ing made mado with a n new nel smoke consumer at the Utah Light and Power plant on Fourth l West street which If Ir as suc sue successful successful from an nn economic standpoint aa as thus far for proved to bo be In regard to 10 tho the consumption of oC smoke will prove provo the tho Invention to be he of ot much practical value A M Zd Grunt Orant and Engineer Hay Hayward ward aro conducting the thu experiments with the new now smoke consumer which was wan put IUt IUt Into operation o for the first time yesterday The Tho method of or operation lion IB lB as nB follows The coal conI U Is run through a 1 Into a n Vip pipe connected to another pliM pilI S I which air all Is U forced by b means of oC a It fUll fan The air IIII produces suction and tb the coal and air all mixed together almost forming a gas fas are blown under a n brick arch where tho the mixture Ignites producing ing log a n heat The air pressure used Is U not much over oer tn All ounce The Tho object of tho the process Is to oxIde lo th the coal particles leli with the oxygen of or the air and thus enable complete com corn bustion of the gases to take place The experiment thus far has proved provell to be ft a 1 snares Four l our hundred and fifty pounds of or coal coni are arc being used per er hour and the power being generated Is be tween and HO horse borse power Scarcely any gases come from the tho chimney and Engineer Hayward said today that he thinks that only noncombustible particles nr mire blown out of the tho fur furnace nace naco lie He and Mr Grant Irant arc are now careful measurements at or the coM coal and water consumed the power und and the evaporation caused oy Dy the heat hell t to determine the thc economic value of or the Invention lion Mr Grant said that It wag the tite tion of the owners to have ha Vo the City Council witness n a test lest soon