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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

TELEVISION SETS HYDROGENATION HARNESSING THE

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Features of the Radio "Gigantic Technical

Exhibition

Achievement"

DANUBE

Huge Power Scheme For Central Europe

WATER POWER IN SCOTLAND

Tummel Bridge Generating Station

The Grampian power scheme, which is connected to the grid sys. tem for central Scotland, may be divided into two portions. The i

consists of the diversion of the

bines, including the automatic gov ernors, main valves, and Y-pipes, was placed with Messrs. Boving and Company, Limited, 8, Kings- way, WCs, who have been respon sible for the design of all these items and supervised their manu facture by Messrs. Markham and Company, Limited, at Chesterfield, inspection on behalf of Messrs. Bal

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25TH ANNIVERSARY OF

TURBO-ELECTRIC SHIP

PROPULSION

first, which is now in operation, four Beatty and Company, Limit.. flood waters of the river Traim facture was carried out by Messrs. into Loch Fricht, and the utilisa Anne's-gate, S.W.1.—Engineering..... Digby and Fairthorne. 0, Queen tion of the waters of this loch to The rapids at the famous Iron supply a power station at the west- The The World Petroleum Congress Gates of the Danube and the lessern end of Loch Rannoch. Costing £30,000 3 erect, the Na-organized by the Institution of well-known but even more beauti-, second portion, now under con tional Radio Exhibition, at Olym. Petroleum Technologists held its ful Kazan Gorge some distance struction, utilises the water from pia, Londen, is claimed to be the first sessions recently at the Im farther up stream, have always Loch Rannoch for a new station at west of finest and most efficient one-indus-perial College of Science and made navigation difficult; for the Tummel Bridge, to the

Technology, South Kensington. river, from a width of about a och Tummel. It is with the latter' try, fair that London has ever acet.

More than 1,000 members, a hun-mile just below. Belgrade, contracts scheme that we are more particu The Radio Manufacturers' Assured official foreign delegates, and in places to only 200 yards and larly concerned at the moment. ciation, the responsible body, have insisted that each of the 321 stands number of guests of honour, in achieves a speed of almost six The new power house will utilise the waters of Loch Rannoch, includ. eluding the diplomatic representa-yards a second.

The General Electric Company in the trade sections should be lives of the countries principally chon from six models designed interested, are concerned in the ing canal, which was built in 1893, eludes the construction of a dan two fire boats, the Greame Stewart "In the Iron Gate itself the existing the discharge from the Ran of New York calls our attention noch power house, and work in- to the fact that it was in 1908 that by themselves in harmony with the

Congress, over which Mr. T blue and silver colour scheme and Dewhurst, the Chief Geologist of is so narrow that only one strig cross the river Tummel to form and the Joseph Medill, were placed the architecture of the exhibition.

of barges can pass at a time, and an artificial reservoir 3 miles below in service by the city of Chicago. No stand is more than 7ift, high, the Burmah Oil Company, is pre-special tags have to be employed on the loch. From this reservoir the These vessels, which are still in so that the possibility of indivi-siding. Yesterday there were some account of the strength of the eur water will be carried in an open coramission, are both propelled by dust exhibitors dwarfing their 700 person taking an active part in

channel, and finally the pipe line. turbines driving the propellers the technical discussions; before the" competitors has been ruled out.

Professor Vasilescu, of Bucarest 19 the power house at Tummel through electric generators and The same on each stand can be Congress ends Tuesday evening 236

of Bridge. The equipment at this motors, the fire pumps being con- scen from almost any point. papers are to be discussed, and 77 University. has, after years

of these were read presented research, evolved a scheme which, station will consist of two generat- nected to extensions of the genera yesterday,

it is hoped, will both increase the ingets driven by turbines, each tor shafts. In 1931 the US. col volume of traffic on the Danube and with a maximum output of 24,000 lier Jupiter was similarly equp- at the same time tap hitherto un brake horsepower, under a net ped by the firm, this vessel being exploited resources, by the build-head of 160 ft. The machines have the forerunner of the six battle- ing of four colossal power stations been manufactured to the order of ships and three airplane carriers with an estimated total capacity Messrs, Balfour, Beatty and Com of the United States Beet which

now operated in this way. of 794,000 h.p., at a total cost of pany, Limited, and are now being aro sixteen million pounds.

installed. The order for the tur Engineernig

rent.

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The exhibition is in three see tious-manufacturing, Post Office, and R.B.C. The chief attraction The congress is divided into a number of which the B.B.C. offers is a theatre three sections' and

The Geological Sec- seating nearly 3000 people, at subsections. which there will be continuous tion, under the chairmanship of performances. Many radio stars Professor V. C. Illing, devoted the will be seen for the first time in the day to "The Geological Signin flesh by a big audience."

ficance of the regional distribution of Oilfields." In the Production It is proposed to dam and lock Ir the Post Office wing the my Section, with Mr. C. Dalley as the river in two places, at Greben steries of long-distance wireless telephony will be revealed to the chairman, more than a dozen pa near the Kazan Gorge, and in the public, who will be taken behind

including pressure drilling, while canal a few miles below Orsave. the scenes in every Post Office de-the Refining, Chemical, and Test Each lock will be 330 yards long partment affected by radio.

ing Section divided off ander and 28 wide. Two power stations are to be erected at each site, the and Manufacturers offer television various chairmen to discuss the gen- sets for the man in the street ateral problems of viscosity, gum- first pair to produce 380,000

bituminous the second 404,000 hp. The tur economic prices ranging from £12. content in gasoline,

bines will measure 23 feet in materials, and there are notor car receivers emulsions, bituminaus which can be switched on while, the und hydrogenation. These subsec diameter and will each use 500 tons car is running. These car sets, tions absorbed the bulk of the day's of water per second. hitherto sold only by American papers and also the bulk of the

Group of Stations "makers, are comparatively expen congress. The Hydrogenation Sub- give, but are claimed to give per-section alone, under the chairman.

would fect reception.

This group of stations ship of Dr. F., Bergius. the re- search chemist and Nobel Prize- from by far the most powerful man with Dr. A. E. Dunstan, the hydro-electric unit in Europe, and chief chemist of the Angle Persian it would also be one of the cheap- Oil Company, as the general re-est, the cost of construction being porter in charge of the proceedings, estimated at £20 per h.p., and the attracted an audience of over 200, cost of power less than a farting and there was an overflow of per kilowatt hour, would-be listeners who could not be accommodated.

covered the bit of crine midle of the care and EVERYTHING (E.C

Miniature Battery Factory.

An enterprising effort to get away from the shop window aspect of trade shows is being made at the exhibition by Vinees Dry Bat- teries, Ltd., by setting up a minia ture factory giving a full view of the process of manufacture of their patent high tension and torch batteries.

Five of the machine units the factory have been transferred for The nonce to Olympia, one produe ing the depolarisation element for each battery with a compound of five chemicals, the second coating it with muslin, the third, enpping it with brass, the fourth seaking and flaxing it, and the fifth filling it with lectrolyte.

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An integral part of the scheme, the cost of which is included in the general estimate, is a bridge over the Danube at the Iron Gates, which would carry a railway and two roads. Such a bridge has long been projected, and is in itself a crying need, as it would cut down the distance by rail from Belgrade to Bucarest by about 200 miles, the present only available routes in- volving a detour, via Jimbolya and Subotica, of half the distance be- tween Belgrade and Budapest, in order to arrive at OrsaVA.

Special icebreakers will be pro vided to deal with the packs of De Dunstan, introducing the ice which in recent winters have that the Apeakers, remarked that Great Bri- become so congested tain was so far only a small-scale authorities have been compelled to producer of mineral oil, througa break them up by ahell fire from the distillation of shales, and the heavy artillery. whole British Empire yielded only a trivial percentage of the petro. Town of the world; yet financially and technically this country had rest influence in the industry He welcomed Dr. Bergins (who gave a historical account of hydro- genation research during the past 25 years) and paid fribute to him aathe artist, the visionary, the man of imaginations, who could see that solid coal could only attain its maximum use when fidified." He referred to the presence of Mr. K. Gordon, of Imperial Chemical Industries, as particulary apposite

Professor Vasilescu's plan" does now that the gigantic technical not count on the consumptipm of achievement of this company in power in the two capitals, or in liquefying coal and producing fram neighbouring countries, consider this intricate and somewhat un- ing that it could all be utilised in promising organic material series the Yugoslav and Rumanian Banat of pure hydrocarbons had ended in for industrial.” the protection of this nascent en- terprise by the British Goveru.

Yugodsay engineers, however, ment's guaranteed preference. possibly because their section of the Banat is almost entirely agri- Mr. "Gordon, in his paper, re-cultural. seem inclined to recom marked that hydrogenation in Eng-mend that the power should be land had from the beginning been made use of both abroad and in primarily concerned with bitu- their own Morava valley, which is minous ecal and the by-products of already party industrialised. coal distillation. From a position

af relying on imported knowledge those in this country bad advanced during the last decade to being the authorities on the production of hydrocarbon mixtures from ‘„bita. minous coal, and the design of large scale plant to accomplish this production. The constitution of chal rendered its hydrogenation. possible.

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