DEFINITE SUCCESS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 11

DEFINITE SUCCESS

ADOPTION FOR STEAMERS

NEW ZEALAND INQUIRIES

, Reference to the success which had attended the uso of pulverised coal was made by Colonel W. D. Holgate at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Coal Mine Owners' Association on Wednesday. "The uso of pulverised coal for marine boiler firing has been definitely proved a success in the United States, England, and Germany," said Colonel ilolgate. "Its use resulted in economy of fuel, economy of space, and reduction of labour. There are now several large sea-going vessels using pulverised coal, this being the direct result of many years of successful experiments. Other British ships are now being built with ' complete equipment for pulverised fuel firing and with no other source, of power. In the United States in 1927. there were in the vicinity of 40,000,000 tons of coal pulverised. With regard to the figures for 1928, I have so far not received a reply to my communication to the Bureau of Mines at Washington, but I understand from other sources that the tonnage vastly exceeds the tonnage given for 1927. The following shows the expanding pulverised coal industry in Germany. ,An American official report states that on "Ist April, 1925, there were in Germany 914.pulverised coal firing installations compared with 763 on the corresponding date in the preceding year. The pulverised fuel referred to is pulverised raw coal, much the larger percentage being bituminous. I look forward to the day when raw coal will only be seen at the pithead and the residue from low temperature distillation will be used either as briquettes, pulverised, or in coke formation. It is not so very long sinco oil entered the field against coal, but notwithstanding the almost overwhelming advantages of oil, coal is still used for 62 per cent, of the total tounage of shipping on Lloyd's Register. I hopo, indeed I am confident, that with the advent of pulverised fuel, those figures will be more than maintained and increased and that pulvorised fuel will, in time replace oil to a considerable extent for the mercantile marine."