Manufacture of carbon disulphide in the electric furnace

✍ Scribed by H.L.

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1922
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 68 KB
• Volume: 194
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(22)90865-8

✦ Synopsis

Manufacture of Carbon Disulphide in the Electric Furnace.--George A. Richter of the Research Department of Brown and Company, Berlin, N. H., contributed to the forty-second general meeting of the American Electrochemical Society a paper embodying the results of experiments on the production of carbon disulphide by the Taylor process, although differing somewhat from the original form of that process. Large-scale production of the substances is based upon the direct action of the two elements at a temperature ranging from 6o0 to lOOO ° C., at which temperature the sulphur is, of course, in the form of vapor and the carbon an incandescent solid. Not all forms of carbon are admissible ; anthracite, gas coke and other denseforms cannot be used. Good grades of willow or birch charcoal are among the best, especially those with a low ash content. The materials should be as dry as practicable. Water vapor will form hydrogen sulphide and other sulphur compounds. The charcoal should be well burned. The mechanical arrangements are described in the article, and the thermal data are presented in much detail. The conclusions are that a comparatively recent process for the manufacture of carbon disulphide has been devised and actual plant data indicate that the unit operates with reasonably fair thermal efficiency.

H.L.