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MINERAL POSITION OF BRITISH EMPIRE.

COULD BE FULLY SELF-

DEPENDANT

"YET HUGE QUANTITIES OF FOREIGN METALS IMPORTED.

(Bxtracts from an Important Paper delivered by Dr. Charles Carrell, Deputy Minister of Mines for Canada, at the Annual Meeting of the Cumulian Taxtitute of Mining and Metallurgy, Montreal, April,

1932.

Note: The italics hereunder arc the author's

tion, will be flush with the upper deck, connecting the railway track on the shore with the three lines of tracks on the deck of the ferry. To fcilitate borthing there is, in addition to the after steering ar

STERILISATION OF A TRAIN FERRY FOR independent steam steering gear

COOLING WATER.

LATEST TYPE OF "CHLORONOME" APPARATUS.

INSTALLED AT "NEW LIVER-

POOL POWER STATION.

Of great interest in many differ- ont felds, and especially in tropi. cal countries, is the "Chloronome" apparatus for the sterilisation of water, sewaga, and sowage offluents by means of a measured trace of chlorine gas added continuously. | A notable recent installation in this connection is in England at the

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CHINA.

NANKING-PUKÓW ENTERPRISE

BRITISH VESSEL TO CROSS

THE YANGTSZE RIVER. "

An order has been placed with the wall-kaown shipbuilding arm of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd. of Newcastle upon-Tyns, for the construction of

a twin-screw brain ferry steamer designed to carry passenger and freight trains across the Yangtze River between. Nanking ană” Pu- kow. The negotiations in were carried out by Malcolm ·and

of London.

China

Very few have

previse knowledge of the extent to which the growth and the operation of our vast present-day industrial atrue- ture has been made possible by, and Station of the Liverpool. Corporn Co., Ltd.. of Shanghai, acting as only by, a tremendous increase in tion for sterilising the cooling agents for the shipbuilders.

The ship and propelling machin- ducts of all kinds. the consumption of mineral pro-water so sa to prevent all organic ery will be built at their Neptune growth on the condenser tubes. Works, Walker, under the supervi During the period from 1003 to This also prevents all troubles dupsion of Sir John H. Biles and Co., 1913 ( quietly, prosperous period) muscle, limpets, and other shell the world's output of iron le esti- fish in the circulating pipes when mated to have increased by e per brackish or sea water is used, aa gent. Copper consumption dur; well as weeds in cooling, towers. ing the same period also increased by s per cont., and the rate of increase forzine was 73 per cent. Load and tin, with 28 and 17 per cent. respectively, show more me- lest rates of growth. But then we and aluminium with an increase of 573 per cent., and nickel of 233 per cent.

If this rate of growth is to co- three, have is the supply to be kept up?... Visualizing the increar- ing resumption of minerals and

ed'?

The Clarence Dock Station is designed eventually for 32 boilers and 8 turbo-alternators, each of 50,000 Kw, capacity, representing a total miximum capacity of 100,000 Kw, but with normal operating conditions of one turbo-alternator as a standby, that is an output of 350,000 Kw. The first section, started up at the end of 1931, com- prises four boilers, each of 180,000 lba. normal evaporation per hour and 175,000 lbs. overload with 450

The principal dimensions aro about 372 ft. overall, an extreme broadth of 58 ft. with three clear longths of ear track each 300 ft. long on the upper deck. The ship load of about 1,200 tons, and a in designed to carry a total live total dead-weight of almost 1,000 tons.

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rangements, a bow rudder with its

for use in manoeuvring in and out of the berthed positions.

The propelling machinery is amid ships with the ensings arranged at the sides of the upper deck, and a coal bunker arranged in • хосова between the two boilers, The hull is exceptionally well subdivided by watertight bulkheads extending to the height of the upper desk,

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Feed water will be carried in ellular deuble-bottom tank under the engines. The forward and after peaks will be arranged for there will be deep tanks for trim water ballast, and, in addition, ming both forward and, alt, and Healing tanks on the port and

tarboard sides amidships.

Subethatial fenders are fitted, as similar fenders are carried round the level of the upper deck, and.

the bow and stern.

The navigating bridge is mounted at a level giving a commanding. view above the trains, and extends: the full width of the ship, and the

captain's accommodation is fitted

on this bridge.

ebra, engineers and crew is arran

The accommodation for the off-

ged on steel lower deck or Bat aft of the engine room.

deck forward for passengers' use.

A shelter is provided on the lower

Basket Equipment.

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The deck machinery includes steam steering gears of the Wilson Pirria type both forward and aft, The bull and machinery will be "both gears controlled by telemotor built under special survey, and in from the navigating bridge, two nocordance with Lloyd require-steam capstan windlasses forward, two warping cupstans" aft, steam- Three Trains.

driven traversing gear, electric Fighting throuabout the ship, The cars will be shipped from the cluding flood lights for the car deck, and steam heating throughout three lines of rails on the upper the living accommodation. deck, taking in all three trains each of seven wagons, a total of 21, wagons. The shunting of the we gone will be by means of a locomo- tive carried on a platform at the after end of the upper deck in conjunction with traversing gear, hy means of which the locomotivo maybe moved..horizontally across the deck to enable it to operate on any of the three lines of rails. At the after end of this deck, and in line with cach car track, substan...» tial buffers will be built.

The forward end of the upper deck will be recessed in an athwart ship direction to receive a hinged apron, which, in its working posi-

he permanent inequality of minors, pressure- and 750 F. superheat-forward end, and accommodated on al distribution between differented steam tomperature (to be raised countries,... we may also ask to 825°F.) and two -50,000 Kw, ourselven where and from what

turbo-alternators. Each of these sources is that supply to be obtain- latter units, one of which at pre- sent is a standby, requires appro- Position of Unique Strength ximately 2,000,000 galiens of cool- "The British Empire, viewed as ing water per hour, taken from and a unit or group rather than as in- disaharged to the River Mersey. dividual countries, is in a position. It was found on investigation that potentially at least, of unique the maximura amount of chloride strength. Of the twenty-eight (most required for complete sterilisation important) metals and minerala, |avoragen 9.50 parts per one million the British Empire possesses parts of water and when Clarence twenty-one in such abundance as to Dock is completed with seven bave large quantities available for 50,000 Kw.turbo-alternators run- export. Of the remaining seven, ning there will be "approximately the Empire posscanes two in quan- 14,000,000-18,000,000 gallons of coc tities adequate for its own needs; ling water circulated per hour, for one the Empire is partially de-under normal load conditions. For pendent on foreign sources; and for this purpose there will be fitted four it is almost entirely dependent two Manometer type

"Chloro- on foreing sources. No other single | nomes", which will have a maximum country, or group of countries poli- capacity of 80 lbs, of liquid chlorine tically associated, occupies a posi- per hour." tion comparable to that of the Bri tish Empire in respect to supplies of mineral raw materials,

It should be kept in mind that the Empire's strength in mineral re sources depends entirely upon the Empre being regarded as a unit. ...The more one cosmines the situation, the more one is impressed with the fact that the mineral strength of the Empire, outstanding ne it may be, lies not in the re sources of any one country but in the combined remurces" of all.

Coal and iron ore are the two chief mineral needs of industrial givilization and, in these two very important mineral items the British Empire has enormous reserves, the enterprising utilization of which should secure for it for centuries to come a high place in the world's industries....

What is Wanted,"

7,000,000.

At the present time one unit has been installed, capable, if neces sary. of sterilising 8,000,000 gallons of water per hour and much more of course than is required for this first section of the. Station.

Fur-

Details of the Plant,

the invention of the Paterson. En- Essentially the Chloronome,"

gineering Co., Ltd. of London, who are the pioneers in this field, is an arrangement of valves and meter apparatus fixed. OD ♫ panel connected up with drums or cylinders of chlorine gas, so "ay- ranged that any desired trace of chlorine is added continuously to the water, as controlled with great accuracy by a single valve. ther, the method of operating is that the chlorine passes first into a small absorption tower forming part of the equipment to give â strong solution of the water, and this is then added by means of earthenware pipes to the main bulk of the water inlet ends of the circulating water ducts so as to ensure immediate and uniform chlorination of the whole volume, which would other- wise be difficult to obtain.

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On the whole, the Imperial In stitute's data. places the mineral position of the Empire in a very favourable light; but the one essential that is needed more than anything else to illuminate the Em pire's position is # consolidated statement or balance-sheet for the Empire as a whole which would show at a glance, for the period under rémiem, the net surplus. or Also the operation is extremely deficiency of the Empire with

accurate because liquid chlorine is respect to each important mineral, always a 100 per cent product irre . This is a job now being at spective of climatic conditions and tempted.

1 the plan on in this connection methods invol- which we are working dan bo carving the use of unstable bleaching ried through, the surpluses and depowder or sodium hypochlorites are ficiencies of each unit of the Empire not a practical proposition, and will be brought out and the course especially in the Far East because indicated by which intra-Imperial of the variation in the eblorine trade in mineral supplies may be content-DAVID BROWNLIE: developed by an exchange of sur- phisen between different parts of the whole Empire. (im

A complete study along these Spain and other countries outside" lines; however, is not as simple as the Empire. That is, in this: one it might appear. We find, year Canada, with a considerable for instance, this in 1998 Canada surplus of copper, shipped nlmost exported, roundly, 30,000 tons of bar entire surplus to the United copper in the form of blister or States, while another Empire coun- copper ore, of which nearly 80 per try, the United Kingdom with vary cent, went to the United States and large net imports of copper pro- per tent to Germany, 18aving only cured, rounds, 80 per cent, of these a comparatively small tonnage for importe from foreign countries all other markets, including the That there is little relations na yet Empire counties. During the same between the Empire's position "in year Canada imported some 22,000 || regard, to basic mineral resourcen actual_ménéral, trade tons of copper in the form of blocks. and ite pigs, ingots, bars, etc. Apparently position. As an Empits, wo may practically all of this came from the have an unrivalled capacity to meet United States.

our mineral needs from our own resources, but no one would over guess it by looking at the present mineral trade returns for any one of the loading countries of the Em- pire. E

Metals Imported. Then, turning to the figures for the United Kingdom for the shino your, we find imports of coppar oro and of copper, in the form of bars, While there is no immediate blocks, etc, amounting to, roundly, close relation between the Empire's 100:000 tona" of witich: 160,000 took | mindraï resources and "fis" mineral came from the United States, Chile, I trade, the situation is one of a)most: (Continged at fo's of next column.į 3 incalculable possibilities, ¿À

The twin propelling engines will be of the three-cylinder, triple expansion, surface-condensing type, with independent air, circulating, food and bilge pumpa, together with the usund ballast, genural service and other auxiliaries...

Steam will be supplied by two single-ended Scotch boilers, "burn, ing Chinese coal, with Howden's system of forced draught. The bailors will be arranged in separate stokeholds, ono port and one star-* board. with separate uptakes and separate funnels, this arrangement. being necessary in order to give a vienr space in the centre of the. ship for the trains,

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