IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4718, 30 June 1924, Page 2

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

REMOVING SULPHUR FROM OIL. PROFESSOR’S DEATHBED SECRET. Following the death of Professor Burls,. which has just taken place (says the Loudon “Daily Mail"), it s expected that important results of his research work regarding shale ail will be made known. Under Government auspices the professor had been engaged at Kimmeridge, Devonshire, for years in trying to find a process to eliminate sulphur from shale oil. After heartbreaking efforts the professor early one morning obtained a clue to the, process, and he was able to reduce the sulphur contents of the oil to less than 1 per cent. —which is under Admiralty requirements. Still, Professor Burls was not satislied. He declined to let his discovery be known until he had “finished the join” He was repeatedly warned that he was making too great a sacrifice of his health, but he refused to listen, and on the morrow of his success was stricken with an illness which resulted in his death. Professor Burls is stated to have made a recent discovery in effecting a* further big reduction of the sulphur content. It was practically on his deathbed that he disclosed the whole secret of the process. Tiie application of his process on a practical scale will be watched with Jieen interest by oil experts, as, if successful, it will open up vast home sources of spirit, oil fuel, lubricating oil, and various by-products.