OIL FROM COAL
USE IN BRITISH NAVY
OUTLINE OF PROCESS
(British' Official Wireless.)
EUGBY, February 10,
The oil from coal, a year's contract for the supply of which to the British Navy has been ' placed by the Admiralty, is secured by low temperature carbonisation. Small coal is baked in retorts, producing oil, smokeless fuel, and various by-products. The present order, has been placed with Low Temperature Carbonisation, Limited, and follows two years' research on land and sea with a view to standardising a fuel which would* fulfil the exacting requirements, of modern naval vessels.
Low temperature carbonisation process produces from every ton of coal about three-quarters of a ton of semicoke, about 5000 cubic'feet of"gas, and 18 gallons of a tar which is converted into oil. The cheapest kind of coal is used in the process, and there is a big demand for its by-products.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1933, Page 7
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145OIL FROM COAL Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1933, Page 7
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