Show GINET PROCESS IS MAKING OIL FROM FRO SHALE AT DEBEQUE The Tho Ginet retort of the Monarch Shale Oil company near De Beque which has been under construction for several months has been completed completed completed com com- and test runs are aro now being made As Is usual In new plants some adjustments have been necessary necessary necessary sary but it is stated that these are trifling and that the plant will be In shape to run continuously In a very short time Fires were started in the retort on the first of the month and the first run was made on April 2 Most favorable results were obtained Inthe in inthe inthe the way of oC speed of treatment and quantity of oC oil recovered The capacity capacity capacity ca ca- ca- ca of the retort had not been defInitely definitely definitely def def- determined until this run was made The result showed that a minImum minimum minimum min min- recovery of thirty-six thirty barrels could be expected As the plant is operated It is believed that this can be materially Increased to approximately approximately fifty tons a day The shale which Is fa now being run I Is turn rE returning n sixty-four sixty gallons of oil to th the ton On the basis of fifty tons this plant should therefore turn out about seventy barrels of oil every twenty- twenty four hours The Monarch plant is the culmination tion of experiments made and test plants operated by Mr Ginet during I the past two years and represents his bis I final effort It Is expected that the plant will be operated continuously as the company has a market for a quantity of or shale oil for mining flotation flotation flo flo- tation at prices considerably In ex excess excess excess ex- ex cess of that obtained for ordinary well petroleum The lighter elements elements elements ele ele- ments of the oil will be removed and refined and the flotation fractious fractions sold to mining operators operator who are using this method of recovering their metal values It is claimed for the Ginet process that it proves that the correct principle principle principle for tor the of the rich oil bearing in his country lies in treating the particle particle and not the mass and in that treatment to remove remove remove re re- re- re move the gases evolved from the tho particle immediately from the r retort tort to the condensers In other words each particle of shale must be heated heated heated heat heat- ed to the same temperature at Identically identically identically iden Iden- the same time so that eaCh and every atom of or the hydrocarbon carbon gases may be taken off in their natural natural natural nat nat- ural sequence in their entirety and so that thal such gases do not come coma in to t contact with ah or lower degree degree degree de de- gree of heat than hat at which they are evolved It is claimed for the Ginet retort that it produces the highest grade shale oil and saves the entire lubricating content The shale at the Monarch plant Is Ii crushed to one half inch in size and andis is crushed at the mine entry In la a Sturtevant From the crusher the shale is conveyed down the talus of the shale ledges by ly a No pipe line to a storage bin from which it is fed led directly into the retort The handling of shale through a pipe line was more or less les of an experIment experiment ex ox- ex- ex and the results obtained by crushing were not fully proven until un- un until un up- til the present plant was finished It Itis Itis Itis is stated that the operation of oC too crusher is 18 perfect and that the movement move movement move move- ment of the shale through a pipe has been a successful operation Non Non- on- on condensable gases from the shall i treatment are proving to be amply sufficient for heating purposes |