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COAL'S CONVERSION TO PETROL

THE HYDRGENERATION APROCESS EXPLAINED

inspectioncessor, M. Painleve, A

I.C.L. COMBINE'S GIANT SCHEME

(By Prof. A. M. Low.)

Polo's First Appearance. Seventy-two years ago last month, the first game of polo was played in England. The 10th Hussars beat the 9th Lancers by three goals to two. Of the crowd who went to Hounslow Heath to watch the play {in-a game that as not really under-

stood, how many remain ! « zdaj

It is estimated that 30,000,000, the result is oil the most important One member of the Royal Family gallons of petrol a year will be pro-fuel civilisation has ever known who was there is still with us. Heduced in Britain from coal as a re The actual process of hydrogena is the Duke of Connaught. His ult of the Government's decision tion is comparatively simple, consist- great-nephew, the Duke of Glouceto grant a preference to the home ing essentially of mixing coal with ster, has his squadron now in the manufactured product. Last year oil and blasting hydrogen gas victorious regiment.

over 200,000,000 gallons of oil were through this mixture when under imported into Great Britain from the great pressure of approximately Real Air Ministers jabroad.

200 atmospheres and a temperature M. Pierre Cot, the young, modest, The Imperial Chemical Industries approaching 500 degrees centigrade. and horn-spectacled French Air Combine is launching a giant scheme In the early form of the Burgius Minister, was the first civilian of oil from coal manufacture at|continuous process, a product known Minister to-get his dying ticket, Billingham, which will give employ-ļas "Luxinasse" · "(mostly oxide of and he has created another pre- ment to many thousands of men iron) was mixed with the ail and cedent in being the first civilian Other smaller companies also have coal paste with the object of remay- Air Minister to fly solo on visitskydrogenation schemes in hand.] Ing some of the undesirable sulphur. Ta time in scientific history But considerable difficulties were ex- when aviation, radio and the perienced, both of a mechanical na- flew regularly on official business, Posibility of splitting the atom have ture in connection with the high both as Premier and as Air Mini-all drawn public attention to techni-temperatures and pressures employ- ster.

cal progress, it is difficult to give ed and owing to the great variation Now that Lord Londonderry has adequate weight to the extreme which took place in the response qualified for his pilot's certificate, national importance of one process experienced with different qualities Europe can claim three Air Mini-more vital to industry than any of coal. It was soon discovered that

other. sters who take their title literally.

not only did "Luxmasse" control the The third is, of course, the gallant

The very name "hydrogenation" extent of conversion, but that the unfortunately suggests some result was influenced by the pre- Italian, General Balbo, who, on the

academic miracle which is of mere sence of substances apparently for completion of his Rome-Chicago educational value, when, in fact, it eign to the reaction. Eventually Rome "Armada" flying on August may be destined to bring to all of us the employment of a catalytic body 12 was created the frat Air

Jan era of prosperity and greater has superseded iron oxide. Marshal of Italy.

domestic comfort.

It is not easy to account briefly Every trade in the world is for any type of catalytic action, but primarily dependent from cheap a catalyst has been compared to a power, whether it be the production bridge over which the particles of of electricity, motorcars, clothing. substances may pass to form dif- or food. Unfortunately, power in ferent products upon the other side not a commodity which can be sold of the bridge, but without affecting by the pound, it is not only the pro-the bridge itself in any way what- duction of convient power but the soever.

The Process. man point where it is most required] Bituminous coal consists mainly which presents all the difficulties of of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen the commercial expense and organiza-|with a small impurity content of eulphur.. In bituminous coal the

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continuation of the subsidy. Health Hint. Proposals for the stabilisation of

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Swim regularly and drink plenty MISTRY-On August 12, 1953, at the supplies of potatoes and the of water-separately, of course.

St. Marie Hospital, Shanghai regulation of imports are now K. D. Mistry, aged 65 years.junder close consideration; and

WAIT. A MINUTE. (Bombay papers please copy). still further reductions in the

“Now," said the hypnotist to imports of beef will almost cer- aduience. "I shall make this tainly be necessary for the last forget everything." quarter of the year for the pro- *Hold on!" yelled a man in tection of the livestock farmer. back row, "he owes me $10!”. Such restriction will be effected

In the case of hyrogenation, hydrogen is approximately five per under the trade agreements al- PEACEFUL INTERVALS. virtually all these difficulties are cent, whereas mineral oil is richer Hong Kong. Friday, August 18, 1933. ready made, or by further nego- SHE: In nearly thirty years if swept by the board, for the process in hydrogen to the extent of '15 per tiation. So also will the new cut married life, we've only had one implies the direct conversion of coal cent., leaving the additional 10. per in the supplies of frozen foreign|quarrel.

to liquid fuel in a form where it can cent, over the actual weight of the mutton and lamb, which will be He: One is right, but you must be serviced to factories and the solid fuel to be added during the increased ; next, quarter from 20 admit that it has been interrupted public through existing systems of conversion process. to 25 per cent. Major Elliot ex- occasionally. plained in detail the effect on

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distribution. It has always seem- By the use of nickel or iron-oxide ed somewhat ridiculous for the catalysts the combination of hydro- whole of Great Britain to be depen-gen can be greatly accelerated,

all our past prosperity has been larly active. in this respect. Most based upon the ease with which the modern processes are very similar |stored energy of the sun in our coal to the original system in which the

could be collected.

coal was finely ground and mixed Very briefly, the meaning of with 40 per cent. of its own weight hydrogenation is the addition of of heavy oil. When the catalyst

That Britain has in Major prices. It has been considerable Now You Know. Walter Elliot a Minister of in the wholesale market, but very The term “love” is used in ten-dent upon imported fuel when nearly some of the lignites being particu- Agriculture, who has framed a small in the retail In other nis because of the net. definite policy which he is not words, the home producer has afraid to put into execution; has been greatly benefited, and the A Cave-man. become increasingly clear for home consumer has not been pre- some months past. Moreover, hejudiced-he is still getting his has the effective and united back-principal foodstuffs at glut prices. ing of the National Government, If 48,000 tons of pig meat have It was the shy young “man's first hydrogen to an existing material has been added to the paste the re- which leaves him a free hand been lifted off the British market dance, and he was at loss for some-not by the future hope that one day sulting substance is pumped into the while he works within the four in five months, and retail prices thing to say to his partner.

the secret of atomic power may be heated container while. hydrogen corners of his scheme. The of pork and bacon have still re- "Do you ever have indigestion?" gauged, or that we may be able to passes through. Minister's review in the House mained exceptionally low, some he started. - of Commons covered a very wide jone has done a clever thing and "No," replied his partner. field, and indicated that his main deserves the credit. The Minis. "What a pity! I know such pre-occupation has been and ter's justification is complete. He excellent remedy." stol is the rescue of the Bri-has held the balance perfectly tish farmer from the ruin which fairly. Ile has saved the home North or South? threatened to overwhelm not one producer; he has not hurt the My father was Fale. or even two branches of British home consumer; and by persuad- agriculture, but every branching the foreign producer to agree They Are Both Busy. separately and together. The to regulate his production for wheat grower, the barley and export to the British market for oats grower, the market gardener the mutual benefit of both coun- and fruit farmer, the sugar beet tries he has inflicted no hurt, but grower, the live-stock farmer, has conferred a benefit upon the

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build up particles from which matter For the whole period of the opera- is made into various substances, butition the mixture is well agitated, an by the far more practical scheme of and the tar-like product which is adding to, or rearranging, the larger eventually discharged into a re molecules into which every familiar ceiver can then be allowed to Jobject may be divided.

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Facts You Did Not Know.

Century-Old Discovery

Much Coal Needed There are quite numerous ex- It should be made very clear that ample of this process in Nature, for until recent experiments with. Eng- since the time when vegetation first lish così not more than about 12 per appeared upon the earth this in-cent. could be recovered in the form

but finitely slow process of disintegra- of a low-boiling-point spirit, tion has continued until coal as we even the use of 10 per cent. of know.It has resulted from trees and hydrogen for adding to the coat other organic Be.

....... [implies the manufacture of no less The process of hydrogenation is than 40,000 cubic feet of hydrogen Government experts take the tem- believed to have resulted either from to convert a quantity of coal into perature of the hay in a haymow in the action of sunlight on seaweed or one ton of petrol. To make one ton. a Maryland experimental station st from direct pressure changes upon of motor fuel, approximately four 27 points twice a day in studying carbon itself, acting over many tons of coal are necessary in all, so the causes of spontaneous combus- millions of years. The process has that with our present petrol: con-": Hon.

added hydrogen to the carbon bases sumption of over 3,500,000 tons per to form various hydro-carbons.

annum, the replacement coal ton

the replanting upon the soil of a great proportion of those who are not likely to find employment again in their own industries, cannot be attempted until agri- An important step forward in culture itself has been safely President Roosevelt's campaign The Italian government has re- The discovery, that hydrogen gas nage would reach the colossal figure underpinned. The keyword of of economic recovery is that the quired millers in the province of could be added to carbon in the of 14,000,000 tons of coal in any the Minister's policy is "quan- steel industry has put in opera- Lazio to use 95 per cent of domes laboratory, and that in a few seconds one year.

(Continued on Page 11). titive regulation." Some foolish tion its "code of fair competitie soft wheat in making floor and a similar result could be achieved to critics have tried to crab- it|tion.” this key industry, those in southern Italy to use 90 that which has occupied Nature with an epigram-"the organisa-which has lately increased its Per. cent.

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of the sort. It is an expedient city, the increase of wages and ·Having a transmitting range of until 1912 that the conversion of method of dealing with the reduction of hours which the ten miles and a receiving range of coal to oil drew attention to the im- economics of glut. Mr. Lloyd President has been demanding 800, a portable radio set weighing mense possibilities of this sciantine Late Mr. H. A. Rodgers. George the other day observed have been fixed by agreement only 14 pounds has been developed discovery..

late Herbert Austin that be thought he would rather among the firms engaged in it for the United States Forest Ser- It has been found practicable to

produce eocon-butter substitutes Rodgers, formerly accountant of - have a straightforward tariff Other leading Industries have

from fish oil, to manufacture toilet the Hong Kong Land Investment than this muddle and tangle of taken, or are about to take, quotas" perhaps because it similar action, spurred on by the fettered individualism and com- turpentine by this new hardening The Look-Out" Taipo, who died at: soap from cotton seed, and to replace and Agency Co., Ltd, and late of “ would be much easier to de- plain declaration that if it is not petition pushed to the limit of process applied to the cheapest waste the Kowloon Hospital on June 26 nounce. But where is the mud-done voluntarily, the Govern-ruthlessness. What the ultimate materials. It is believed by many this year, left local estate valued die? The Minister is succeeding ment will apply its own compul- effects of the new policy will be people that it will eventually be at $14,400,00 remarkably well in his efforts to sory schemes. It la resolved that is hidden even from its own simple matter to make sugar from bring supply and demand into the increase of consumption and authors. Costs of production dust, but at present it is to the Turner, solicitor, the deceased's The petition by Michéel Howard equilibrium, and that with a the employment of more workers must evidently Mae A gigantic large-scale manufacture of fuel oils lawful attorney, for letters of ad- minimum of friction. He expects shall accompany the increase of experiment, founded on a radical and petrol that Great Britain can ministration of the will annexed to to reach a satisfactory arrange-production that is already gen-change of mentality and purpose, look forward with so much con- the estate, has been granted. ment with Mr. Bennett over the eral; and in higher wages and is as yet only in its opening adence, legink importation of oats from Canada shorter working time the solution phase. It will be watched with Even to-day the value of solid] which would obviate the need of of the moblem is sought.... His- profound interest and continuing fuel is far less than its by products, a higher duty. The sugar beet tory recurds ho more astonishing respect for the national genius such as coal-tar, benzole, or aniline |manufacturers and the refiners revolutio «than this change of of adaptability and perseverance; dyes, and, if tula origin con Fair generally, with moderate

have composed their differences, #ystem in a country which has but the confidence with which it carbon itself can and this will help the Government always been the paradise - if jis being undertaken can hardly hydrogen attached

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it in other cant issued to day by the Royal

to come to a decision as to the that be the right word — at un- be felt outside the United States, words, if it becomes hydrogenated........ Observatory.