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Page 3 - ... of the gasoline production in that year. It is evident that the maximum probable development of lowtemperature carbonization, while furnishing a material quantity of motor fuel, cannot satisfy the entire demand. We must turn to other processes in which motor fuel is the principal product rather than a byproduct.
Page 107 - Falmouth committee (par. 230, p. 46) to conclude "in these circumstances, it is abundantly evident that so long as the price of imported fuel remains in the neighborhood of the present figure, the case for home-produced oil, judged by purely economic standards, falls to the ground. Hence, it follows that if it is desirable for any of the reasons mentioned in paragraph 238 to produce oil from coal or other indigenous material, government assistance in one form or another must be forthcoming.
Page 112 - On the other hand, it should be kept in mind that if larger scale coal-hydrogenation plants were erected than shown in detail in this memorandum, the costs for coal hydrogenation would be competitive with those of the Fischer process. TABLE I. — Summary table i See tables II and III for details.
Page 8 - ... about 100 pounds of coal, producing about 8 gallons of gasoline per 24 hours. The main objective of plant operations thus far has been to study the hydrogenating •properties of coals from the more important coal beds in the United States.
Page 5 - Germany since 1926, the raw material is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide gases produced from coal or coke and steam. This gas mixture, after purification to remove all sulfur compounds, is passed over a solid catalyst such as a mixture of cobalt and thoria with diatomaceous earth. The temperature is maintained at 356° to 4 10° F and the pressure between 1 and 50 atmospheres.
Page 3 - ... 2 to 4 gallons. Refining losses would bring the net yield of motor fuel from gas scrubbing and straight distillation of the tar to about 2.5 gallons a ton, or about the same as is obtained in high-temperature carbonization. However, this low-temperature tar may be subjected to the same pressure-cracking processes that are used for petroleum, and thus yield 20 to 30 percent of motor fuel. It is, therefore, reasonable to assume a possible yield of 7 to 12 gallons per ton of coal carbonized at temperatures...
Page 98 - Mr. Chairman, I have one or two questions that I would like to ask. I...
Page 16 - Kinetics of Hydrogen Consumption, Oxygen Removal, and Liquefaction in Coal Hydrogenation: Effect of Rank. Fisher, CH; Sprunk, George C.; Eisner, Abner; Clarke, Loyal; Fein, ML; and Storch, HH Fuel in Sci.
Page 2 - On this basis, 207,000,000 gallons of motor benzol could have been obtained from the total coal coked in byproduct ovens...
Page 4 - ... the oil product is separated into gasoline, middle oil, and heavy oil. The latter Is recycled so as to provide oil for mixing with coal at the start of the process. The middle oil is hydrogenated further, using a catalyst held In place in the converter rather than pumped in along with the raw material. The final products are gasoline and Diesel fuel. About 50 percent of the coal that is hydrogenated Is obtained as a motor fuel and about 5 tons of coal is necessary per ton of gasoline produced...