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Show INKW METHOD OF HEATING FOR OGDEN. Z here is a day not far ahead when nearly all the heating in homes and factories will be by gas. This change Is to be brought about by the late application of an old principle wblon as described in the last issue of the Literary Digest, is highly interesting in-teresting as forecasting great posei-bi posei-bi lit tes In the new heating system The idea of n heating apparatus In which coal gas should be burped without with-out flame occurred recently, at about the same time, to an Englishman. Prof. W. Done, and a German, Professor Pro-fessor Schnabel. The principle utilized util-ized by both is identical with that employed in certain types of automatic auto-matic lighter attached to a gas-mantle. gas-mantle. These consist simply of platinum plat-inum sponge, or platinum in fine powder, which has a curious faculty Tor absorbing gas When n mixture of ordinary lighting gas and air pas ses through this spongy stuff, thn two gases are brought Into such intimate inti-mate contact that they take fire oi t!'fcr own accord. Flow this prln-epic prln-epic is utilized on a larger scale and with a cheaper material to produce nameless heat is thus told t Carl 1 Snyder: ' It is very well known that the "efficiency" of an ordinary fire is very low. Coal burned in an ordinary grate does not give off more rhan 5, or at mo3t 10, per eont. of the heat It contains Even when the coal is converted Into gas and burned as a gasflame the efflcienccy is still not great not over 30 or 40 per cent "In the system devised by Prof V. I'one, In England, a mixture of gas and air is forced through a finely norou6 mantle of some substance. Uke magnesium, extremely reslstent to heat. There is always a slight ex-cess ex-cess of air. but it is quite extraordinary extraordi-nary how small this excess may be, so perfect is the combustion. When under a not very high pressure, the mixture of gas and air is forced through this porous material and lighted with a match about as you would light a gas-stove Then Is at first the ordinary gas-flame, which, as you increase the amount of air! becomes thin and blue and finally vanishes entirely At the same time the surface of the porous diaphragm opinp to glow and soon becomes white hot. "The theory of the flsmelcss heater is rvnetly Mi seme as that of the gas lighters that each little molecule cf ns and oxygen shall be brought into such contact that they must ! combine The effect is thai there is 1 not only no flame, but no smoke The result is almost pure carbonic-acid (AS, which is colorless, odorless, and harmless." Actual measurement has shown we are told, thai the combustion in the j tameless heater takes place in a lay-er lay-er of about one-eighth to one-third Of an inch, and Is therefore so concentrated con-centrated that a very small stove suffices to heat a large room and can be carried about in the hand like a lamp To quote further: "For all kinds of metal-work ovens are built on the same principle From ordinary producer gas they develop tremendous heat 1,800 degrees C, which Is about 3,400 degrees F . and of still greater utility are the steam-boilers steam-boilers made after this same process. More the gas is driven through lip.it-:ng lip.it-:ng tubes containing the porous ma- I terlal, and the efficiency runs as high tis 95 per cent. These boilers for a given surface develop twice as much heat as a locomotive boiler, and with them It is possible to get up steam In a jiffy. There is no long wait." Tf this new system were to be applied ap-plied in Ogden. the coal measures owned by Ogdenites at Coalville could be made of immense serv ice by 1 converting the coal into gas on bbe ground and piping the product to this ' city. The day is coming when that 1 a ill be done. oo |