The dye-works chemist

✍ Scribed by Leech, B.

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1920
• Weight: 443 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000391702

✦ Synopsis

which is given. clscwhcro in this issuo, d d t with tho prncticitbility of producing nlcohol direct from ngriculturn~ products, and I d to tho conclusion that tho qiicstioii of tho mnnufnctirro from homo-grown products is still sub jiidicc. In tho discussion Prof. C . €1. I)CS& stated tlint cspcrinicnts nt tho jvorks of tho Skinningrovc 'Iron CO. Ilnd sllolvll &lint nbout 70 pcr cent. of tho e t l l ~l c ~i o fornicd in tho ~~innuInctiiro of coke was r e coi*crnblc, nlld tlint 70 pcr ccnt. of tliis rccovcrcd gas was coiivcrtiblc into nlcohol. Tho results had 80 far been obtnilicd with nn cspcrimcntnl instnllntion, but n largc-scnlo plant had just b c g i ~t ~ working, n1id i t rcrnuincd to bc SCCII if tho procTss \vns 8x1 CCOIIOIIIIC one. If thp cthylcna were rccovcrcd from nll tho caul carboiiiscd in this country, soma 23 million gal~ons of nlcoliol could bc obtnincd ycnrly pi1 tho basis of tho nborc figurcs of yield. A rcsolut!on was passcd by tho Sectional Committee endorsing tho vciluo of , rind cl?iming support for, such expcririicnts ns wcro bclng undcrtakcn b ~? Capt. Dcsboro!igli, nnd this. wns approved by. tlio Gciicrnl Conimittco nnd :(cmlttcd to t+ Council. T o n symposium on Lubricntion wcro contributed pnpcrs by Mcssrs. II. X. IVclls nnd J. E. soutliconibc, A.