ALCOHOL AS FUEL
DIVEESION OP DISTILLERY PLANT. The special committee of the Commonwealth Bureau of Science and Industry, which is inquiring into alcohol fuel and eugfnes has resolved that it is. imperative thU the supply of industrial alco. hoi should be largely "'« . im, " C(hi^' y increased. The only way that tho committee sees whereby this can bo done immediately is bv diverting a portion of the distilling plant now used for making potable spirit to the manufacture of industrial alcohol. , The committee has already recommended to tho Government:1 That in order to dovelop the use of alcohol for power purposes and to encourage the production of the raw material upon which tho manufacture of power alcohol depends, tho necessary action bo taken to allow of the manufacture and iwe in Australia of "power alcoho , denatured with 2 per cent, of either; (a.) those fractions of coal tar distillates which are obtained at a temperature of from 1. > deg. C. to 230 deg. C; or (b) creosote oil, i.e., such coal tar oil distillates as are specified above after Ihey have been deprived of their tar acid contents. 2 That an allowance at the rate ol rti. per gallon bo granted by the Commonwealth Government on "power alcoliol denatured in the above manner and manufactured in Australia from raw materials produced in Australia, by way ol reimbursement of tho extra cost caused by fiscal restrictions on the manufacture of alcohol. ' 3. That a bonus, also at the rate of 3d. per gallon, be granted by the Common-wealth-Government on such "power alcohol" in order to encourage its manufacture and to develop (he primary industries on which tho supply of tho necessary raw material depends. So far the Government lias taken uo action.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 240, 28 June 1918, Page 6
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290ALCOHOL AS FUEL Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 240, 28 June 1918, Page 6
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