Shock testing of package goods

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1951
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 77 KB
• Volume: 252
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(51)90458-9

✦ Synopsis

Petroleum Coffee

Bags.--Now the petroleum industry has come to the aid of the coffee drinker. The newest thing is individual coffee bags, packaged in saran film--a petroleum-derived plastic. The coffee bags are similar to tea bags, and are said to eliminate waste and to assure that each cup is fresh and brewed to individual taste.

Plastic-Coated Tubing Passes Corrosion

Test.--Manufacturers of plastic coatings have been working with petroleum technicians on the problem of corrosion in oil well tubing. At completion of a five-month test, ordinary pipe was corroded deeply after being subjected to a daily flow of 100 barrels of oil and 5000 barrels of iodized salt water. Preliminary tests indicated that pipe coated with vinyl plastic was unaffected. Benefits from production research like this are ultimately passed on to consumers in the form of increasingly plentiful supplies of oil products.