THE THERMOGEN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1920, 25 October 1884, Page 4

THE THERMOGEN.

\ prAy for the manufacture of vapour for licuting has been introduced at the mills of the Joliot Iron and Steel Co., Illinois which is stated to bo the most impoitant impio\enient since the introduction of tiro Bessemer process of steelmaking. In the sjv ng of labour, and | fuel, as w I'll as other incidental expl-lises, it is said to be fully as imporfaut as the direct pioccss lately introduced at the woiks, which lcvolutionised the entire process of making rails. The invention takes the placo of the present expensive system of heating the furnaces by menus of coal-pas, and it is called a " thcrmogen " Its cost is stated to be merely nominal, and it doea away with a boating plant that costs 00.000d015., including the gas-house and the tremendous daily consumption of coal. The apparatus consists of a small cylinder about four feet long, and eighteen inches in diameter, with a shell four inches thick. This is placed on a small furnace about se\cn feet long and four wide, and is kept, when in use, in a cheiry-rcdhc.it. It is connected with a crude petioclnm oil tank by a small pipe, and also by asteam-pipo from a 25 horsepower boUer. Tins boiler genciatis the hydiogen gas, and the thermogen makes the oil gas, ami the two aie combined by pipe's that bung them in contact, making the vipour fuel, and causing the neccssaiy combustion. Tlucc furnaces, aie now heated by tins \apour fuel, and the lesuHs are said to be far move ->atibhctory than those obtained by me ms of the coal gas system. The new arrangement .saves a very cumbersome and disagiccable system of machinery. Those theimogcns arc to be intiodiiced into all the departments of the plants wheio boileis aie lequired, and will take the place of the expensive system at piescnt in vogue for heating the boilus in the blastfurnace, convertnig mill, steel mill, and machinery depaitmont. They will also be introduced into other woiks, and aie doubtless destined to ic\olutioniso the present system of heating in factories and mills cveiywheic. The a^'gicgatc amount of coal and evpensii saved anuuully cannot be comouted, but will lie veiygieat. The inventor is a W.ioliington im-chanic, whose name does not tianspiie — lion.

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