MOTOR FUELS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2270, 30 April 1921, Page 4

MOTOR FUELS

TESTS OF ALCOHOL FOR POWER. RESEARCH PROGRESS. London. March I.L The Empire Motor Fuels Committee, which was formed last May liv the Imperial Motor Transport Council, issued yesterday a record of the work accomplished. The Committee was appointed “to take immediate steps to encourage and develop the production and utilisation of additional motor fuel supplies of raw materials therefor in all part sol’ the Empire, and more shipments of motor fuels to Great Britain, and so far as may lie necessary to the Empire Overseas.’’ With this end in view it was empowered to -co-operate with any Government or incorporated or unincorporated bod\, and to offer bonuses or other rewards. Of the substances already investigated, those which appear best to comply with the formulae are iredistilled bone oil, light caoulchoucine, and shale-oil products. Ex-

periments arc in progress with promising results to detect quantitatively the presence unbone oil iti alcohol in quantities as small as 0.001 per cent. Some work has been carried out oil the cracking of the residues of bone oil and light oaoutcliouciue. The latter lends itself more readily to this operation than the former. Experiments have also been conducted on castor oil; there is evidence that a denaturnh! can he obtained from this substance, but the cost is prohibitive. Tests arc being arranged in the Air Ministry to ascertain the effect of redistilled bone oil and light cauutchoueine on metals. If the results are negative, as is anticipated, the new dcmiturants will be ready for consideration with reference to practical trials on (lie road (in suit - able mixtures of alcohol and benzol) and for examination by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and Board of Customs and Excise, with a view to adoption as new Governmental standards.

An Engineering-Sub-Commit tee lias been appointed, under the chairmanship of Dr. W. R. Ormandy, “to prepare a synopsis regarding the development and use of power alcohol engines, embodying information as to the lines of procedure with regard to experiments, and including recommended standards for denatvrants and mixtures.”

The Committee has in hand a complete series of tests which, it is believed, will establish definite data governing the design and operation of internal-combustion engines running on alcohol fuel,and mixtures of alcohol-benzole-ether and similar mixtures containing varying proportions of certain kinds of deuaturants. The objects of these tests

are: —(1) To determine which of these mixtures may ho used with commercial economy in internalcombustion engines of existing'design; and (2) to establish data affecting the design of internal-com-bustion engines for the future.

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