GAS POWER FROM WASTE WOOD
Tlie progress which has been made by British firms in the construction °1 Motion gas plots for utilising waste iiood is of special interest to many countries overseas, where there arc large quanhties of this material aval ab.e. These plants'distil the wood and produce Which is of excellent quality for use m gas engines. This method of utilisation is much more economical for power-pro ducing purpose than burning under a boiler. A recent example of a arge installation on these lines is afforded by a mine in a British Dominion, where a British firm has supplied four suction "ns plants capable of yie dmg a total output of fourteen hundred horw ’r’^ w '’'' Tho fuel used is in the form of.logs uI to two feet long and a foo. in ’ and the gas is applied to the dming o four horizontal gas engines. ”nee ot the engines drive electric generators, and the fourth is coupled to an air compressor for operating pneumatic drills and hammers in the mine.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 160, 2 April 1921, Page 3
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173GAS POWER FROM WASTE WOOD Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 160, 2 April 1921, Page 3
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