RURIFYING COAL GAS
An important improvement in the i manufacture of coal gas lias been per- .; IW.tcd by the engineers of a gas com- i jinny in" London, England. /They have . ; contrived to extract from the gas f.ll { Hip carbon bisulphide—a substanco j which, when burned, had a deleterious eliVct 011 heaitli and aiso on various 111 - i (p-i»k Throurhout most of the nineteenth , j century, chemists and eng'iueers strove j to sofvo this problem, hut success dul. j ! not como till the year 1914. The war . ; j | prevented the erection of plant to carry -j out the process, but the way is now open j I lor the general adoption of a method ] | which, it is stated, will make a gas j |» liame as harmless to the surroundings ias a candle. The process 'is a catalytio j I one, the extraction of the impurity being ( i effected by a substance which remains .] ' unchanged in spite of its activity. It may I lie added that Hritish gas companies i-ro j 1 now'adopting the sci'entiiie principle of ; I charging for gas ou the basis, not x .j j mere quantity, hut of heat value. |
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 185, 1 May 1920, Page 7
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193RURIFYING COAL GAS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 185, 1 May 1920, Page 7
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