| Show GAS GA S FROM cju COAL AL TO r JU ANEY HOME tha that t utah can be eared saved the he which is belay being considered td for pip ing natural gaa gas from Wyom laff la Is the contention of a newly formed salt aaka corporation known under tho name of the utah product products company german E n ellsworth tg Is the president preel dent loni Thoin Thom peon poon of 0 provo vice pre preat aldert deat george 0 smith secretary geere tary and tress arc aurer tad and jackson of 0 provo dl rector these men have been working leveral several month months on a proposition where by coke take dakon off at low temper ture tur through a lion non destructible process of distillation give gives gai gas crude oil and gas oline aline am by projects the company holls hob hol ls the united state right rights and the present patent is i for utah it ii Is aid said tho the method to be used has ha been byj T penton of 0 salt IKC I as the following lotter from or dr bonner banner consulting chemist former ly of the university of utah to mr smith explains the process yon you ask me tnt tor for mj my opinion 1 of me lae po possibility of the tb coal distillation pro pre cess u J T deuton peuton I 1 have gone ever over the process voas and the patent sped ficat tons very YM carefully z and I 1 am ara fully convinced that the plan is feasible chemists and engineers have beer work ing for some years on a process of low temperature talking no 0 coal and nd in my opinion the time la Is ripe fr for gome some ae tive commercial development to ti to so place mr Fen tone process Is kaa simple and eo so far ae as I 1 c a tr r see it is thoroughly feasible so lew low temperature coking at ui a math muth to commend amend coi it over the rat nt abos lod use in preparing r metallurgical due to the fact that so high temperatures are used the depreciation of the plant ie Is much smaller doe due to the fact that all 11 of the volatile matter Is not removed from the e al the resulting lag coke is free though P kv 1 due again to the low temperature used the gaa gas produced I 1 Is higher than ordinary in testing value though smaller la in amount and the tar which is to about double the amount produced in the high temper sturt coking contain little of high bo boiling illing compound and 11 pitch it 6 atly ula able pa r a ato fuel a fuel oil ani an I 1 the tile cre gotes which form a large port patt of the tar are valuable e ap wood arb pr ei and as a flo tation the utah coal coals average about 45 43 per cent volatile matter it ie Is aseer tallied and tho the coke should retain about IS 12 to 15 per a cent vent volatile volatiles the loss is therefore about 30 20 per cent so that one ton of coal produce produces about 1400 pounds of coke the gas a will be about cubic feet per tun ton of coal |
