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Show From Coal Gas. An English engineer, Ernest Bury, claims that he has succeeded in extracting ex-tracting elhylene alcohol from coal-oven coal-oven pas on a commercial scale, says the Scientific American. The practical practi-cal working of the process at the Skin-ninprove Skin-ninprove works, where D.SOO tons of coal are carbonized per wool;, reveals nn averacre yield of 1.0 gallons of alcohol al-cohol per ton of coal. The total weight of coal reduced to coke in Ibis country during 118 was 1 1 j'rMo.Ofi'l Ions, so that the applie.'ifion of Mr. T'.ury's process to this uuan'ity of coal would yield .''.. !1f;.r. 10 gallons of alcohol, j which would lie available as liquid ; fuel. fV.t-l treated at eras uorits would yield n further S7.0iifi.ooo gallon:-, or, l.'.ltirtp a If. .hoi and benzol fopether. -n hboi.'.Oii'i 'pnllons of liquid fuel per an num could be produced from the carbonization car-bonization of coal in this country toward meeting the total requirement of about 100,000,000 gallons. |