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SATURDAY,

OIL FROM COAL

Partial Hydrogenation Of Carbon Monoxide

There is no doubt whatever that if it be desirable for any country not possessing petroleum deposits to be entirely self- supporting as regards oil' supplies, that object ozinot be attain- ed by carbonisation. Carbonigation, whether at high or at low temperatures, is somïetimes clusted is a process by which all is produced from coal.

"It is, of course, nothing of the sort, consisting actually or the production of coke from coal-s small quantity of all being' pro- duced aimultaneously as by product.

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DECEMBER 19, 1936,

TIMBERS OF THE

EMPIRE

A Novel Scheme Of

Decoration

An outstanding feature of the fine new headquarters building of the Royal Empire Sociéty in Lon- don which was officially opened recently, is the distinctive Mooring and panelling composed of tim beta representative of all parts of the Empire. Most of these -tum- bars have been generously presen- ted to the Society by the various Governments or by private bene-.

“ROBOT” BRIDGE factors, and many people nave

CONTROL

Photo-Electric Cell Employed

The new £350,000 road bridge across the Firth of Forth st Kin- cardine is believed to be the first Instance of the application of photo-electric cells to bridge con- trol.

The production of oil is con- ditioned and circumscribed by the necessity for disposing of the coke. Industry cannot pay the enhanced price for fuel which would be re- quired if the lower, grades of coal now used for heating were to be! first converted into coke The diverse uses of coke make it im- perative that, hard low-volatile core should be produced, even for the domestic market, as well as the high-volatile low-temperature In the centre of the bridge | product. Much of the coal that a swing span 364 it, might be carbonised if house coal weighing 1,800 tons which rotates were to be replaced by coke on a central pler; this provides would have to be carbonised at two clear openings for shipping high temperatures and would thus each 150 ft. wide. The whole u produce, only minor gfelds of oils

the control gear, together with the if the smoke-abatement reformers traffic control, warning devices succeeded in getting raw coal and the complete lighting of the banned from the domestic grafc. | bridge was designed and manu- the coal would not be replaced factured by the General Electric wholly by, coxe; gas and electricity Co. Ltd., of England. The actual would take their share, and this driving mechanism is installed in might prove to be's very consider a machinery room between the able share...

roadway and the drum girder, and

long SLIC

When the span is moved into the "through road" position C

On this basis it has been cal-It's controlled from a cabin 30 culated that even the most op ft above the roadway in the centre timistic dreams of those who would of the swing span. bring about smoke abatement by Carbonisation cannot produce more than some 30 per cent, to 60 per cent of our 1934 oll require ments; much of this all would need to be hydrogenated before it would be suitable for use in the internal-combustion engine. More- over, coal tars are used for. variety of purposes. so that great deal of this 50 per cent, 60 per cent would not be available to replace imported all. Taking this fact also into account, it is probable that in no circumstances could this country produce by car- ponisation more than some 20 per cent, of its present ofi require- merits.

HOME-PRODUCED

already visited the new building to study the decorative effect of these contrasted; varieties as a

in novelty

Interior decorative treatment.

The enquiry opite, for example, is panelled in Ohim wood from the Gold Coast and the buffet In Uganda Mahogany. The flooring at the groundfloor lounge is Rhode- alan Mahogany, whlie two

other

and Opepe wood from Nigeria, the lounges TC Hoored with Sapele

Australian Blackwood and of the panelling of one room being in

Cedar other British Columbian Red

room is Australian Jarrah, while The flooring of the main dining

the panelling silky Yellow Canadian Birch; the assembly hall is panelled in Tasmanian Oak, In other rooms New Zealand Rimu. Indian Silvergrey, Borneo White Berayah. English Sweet Chestnut and Mora wood from Trinidad are represented. Yet again, the secre- tary's room is panelled in. Kenya Olive and Uganda Mvulf, and the Council room will be in South African Stinkwood, as soon as the timber is in proper condition. The two marble pillars in this latter

ment of Malta room are the gift of the Govern-

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BRAIN TWISTÉR

is accurately aligned by means of Adam panelling and

In several rooms the original special photo-electric cell equip from the old premises have been fireplaces ment, in conjunction with auto-utilised. matic indicating devices. The operator's desk in the control cabin Is the

nerve centre of the installation, for on it are amounted the main control hand- wheel, various master switches and push buttons and 37 indicating lamps; a dial shows the position of the swing span at any point in its travel through 90 degrees.

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As soon as the operator in his cabin sees that a ship is waiting to pass through the bridge, he tarns the main control handwheel. and the electric control equipment Ir, then, it be granted that automatically takes entire charge poutical consideradons render it and performs all the operations desirable for the bulk of our fuel necessary to open the span, with --and also the much larger re- cut any further action by the quirements tur times of national operator. First of all, the traffic emergency to be home-prodliced. | lights on the bridge change to there is no way open to accomplish red, and warning bells rings; after this save by synthetic production | a short interval traffic barriers are At present there are only two lowered at each end of the swing such methods known, one by span, while in the mean time a hydrogenation of suitable coals syren warns the waiting vessel and the other by nydrogenation that the span is about to open. of carbonmonoxide gus, the latter Then the large steel bolts and being HOWL

the Fischer- wedges locking the span in post

A traveller Is stranded in out- landish parts. He has no money and cannot get a remittance for two months To make matters worse the shack proprietor will not give him a day's credit. The traveller passesses, however, a heavy gold chain of sixty-three links, and it is agree that he shall pay one link per day for his board and lodging. He hates to think of cutting off the links one by one, and by-und-ny he discovers

plan by which the payments may be regularly made, and only a few of the links cut: What is the smallest number of cuttings necessary to do this?

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Tropsch process. The hydrogenation are drawn, and slowly the

older, owing its inception to some tion. early, experiments on the produc tion of artificial coa?” in the laboratory of Dr. Bergius in 1910

The Fischer-Tropsch process had its birth in the years 1922 and 1923, when Professor Fischer - and Dr. Tropsch found that when a mixture of hydrogen and carbon- monoxide gases was passed over an alkaline iron catalyst at 400 deg. C. and under à pressure of 100 atmospheres, oxygenated com pounds - alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and fatty acids were produced, but that as the pressure was lowered, compounds containing less oxygen were formed, so that at 7 atmospheres pressure, an oll obtained which consisted principally of hydrocarbons, of, a paramnold character, though the rate of reaction fell as the pressure was reduced,

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three days. Re tenders the piece of four links on the fourth day, and retrieves the three single, cut links He teriders the pieces of right links on the eighth day and retrieves seven- the four-link plece and the three singles. He tenders the piece of sixteen links on the sixteenth day and retrieves Afteen--the eight-link plece, the four-link piece, and the three singles. So he goes on, tendering the thirty-two-link piece on

the thirty-second day.

three

CONUNDRUM According to the Ministry of A bookworm attacked Communications. the Changten books side by side on a library Yuanling (shenchow) section of shelf. Starting at the first page the line was opened to traffic last

of the first book it ate its way in. week.

a straight and direct line to the last page or the third book, The first book has one and a Lalf inches thick... the second: two. inches, and the third two and a half inches, and they were All bound in uniform, boards, onę quarter of an inch thick. In the first book, therefore, the pages occupied one mach and the covers together half an huet. How far, did the

SUPERVISEE FAILS

From this it was a natural step to deduce that if the raction were" carried out under atmospheric pressure, and if a catalyst could

TO REPORT be found that would enable the reaction velocity to be largely in Ngai Pat, 25, unemployed, was creased at that pressure, a valu- brought before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- able method would become avall tadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy able for the synthesis of hydro- | yesterday for falling to report him- carbons. It's an interesting fact selt at the Shumshuipo Police that when the temperature is of Station during the month of Nov- the order of 400 deg. C. and the emper. pressure is high, a suitable catalyst Defendant was placed under results in the formation of alcohols, police supervision for two years chifefly methyl alcohols, if the tem- dating form March, this year. berature is reduced to some 200 He stated that he returned to deg. C. and the pressure to at the country after he had served mospheric, a somewhat different! three months sentence, and was catalyst produces only, hydrocor- sick when he arrived in Hong bons, oxygenated bodies being Kong. absent, In a sense, the first pro- cess is one of partfal hydrogenation of the carbon monoxide, and in the second one the hydrogenation is completed. Engineering.

travel?

ANSWER

bookworm

Two and a half inches. AS books on a shelf stand with their" backs facing outwards the rat page of the left-hand book is next to the righthand cover, and the min last page of the right-hand pook His Worship told him that he is next to the left-hand cover: should not have left the Colony The bookworm therefore ate because he had no permission from through the whole of the middle the police to do so.

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