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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1932.

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PROGRESS AT DAGENHAM.

Ford Plant in England Starts Production.

ita scientific fuel

It is the principal object of the present article to describe one of the latest and most remarkable fuel examples of co-ordbuted utilization, that is, the new Ford works Thames, near London, the

in some cases to a depth of more The necessary yard to take Um than 80 feet, the ground generally DA delivered from the being of a swampy and difficult material

boilers, each with an evaporation and almost completely automatic in of 200,000 pounds per hour and two | 'operation throughout. The by- 200-pound pressure boitors for product installation is also of the general

process work. Space latest design; it in the intention will be provided for one additional to use the recovered benzol for

and high-pressure boiler

one driving away the Ford care. additional lowpressure boller, mak- Another notable feature is that inig a total of seven units, As the plant will have the first dry- The Dagenham plant of the Ford huge jetty 1,800 feet long and regards the generation of power, quenching coko equipment in the Motor Company, Limited, of Eng feet wide projecting out into the in addition to the 80,000 kilowatt British Islca. It fa estimated land, eighteen miles from London Thames, which alone has cos turbogenerator, which is of the that this plant will generate steam has started production. The ing on the river front 20k net 3-stage type running, at 3,000 from the gases released in cooling of ten special

removing on the river front 200 feet long revolutions per minute, there will the coke at the rate of about 2,000 tons of

by 60 feet wide, a space of 200 also be a house service set of two 15,000 pounds per hour. equipment from the Manchester works arrived at the fest by 400 feet for a garage, an steam turbine dritch binat furance This then is another aspect of new factory September 27. assembly building 1,000 feet long blowera.

fuel technology in which little The rentoval was effected by the by 300 feet wide, a manufactur

Each of the three main buildings | progress has been mado; nearly London Midland & Scottish Rail-hig building also 1,000 feet lonk way in one of the greatest rush by 300 feet wide. Three shops supplied with electricity,, Kna, all the coke oven plants in the water, and compressed air-by-world-are-u{}]}-discharging a vast movements in railway history. It together occupy about twenty means of a large tunnel 1,050 number of tons of white-bet coke

blast furnace is 205 miles from the Ford sidings | acres-the

plant, feet long, 12 feet 6 inches wide, per annum and cooling it merely in Manchester to Dagenham, or the coke oven plant, and a power one night's train journey. Four station on the most advanced lines, and 8 test 6 Inches high, with by quenching with cold water, thus offshoots to every part of the wasting all the sensible hont- The hundred ears,

packed including illers

nt to operate carefully

buildings.

actual results obtained at. Dagen assembled 1,200 pounds par square with equipment, were

inch

The blast furnace plant has a ham will, therefore, be awaited In such a way that it was possible pressure, with utilization of not nominal capacity of five hundred with great interest. at Dagenham to unload each piece only blast furnace gas, coke oven tons of pir iron per twenty-four Eleven miles of standard sage in order, placing it in position gas, and pulverized fuel, but alsof Choura, with three stoves and railway have been laid; more than with no loss of time.

huge amount of hou chold refuse thickener for the reclaiming, of 150,000 cubic yards of earth bave An Interesting and authoritative which is to be brought down the fine Tren dust. There is also an been dug out, largely used to make description of the new plant by Thames from London In barges improved sintering plant, the first the railway embankments; during

A east part of the jelly David Brownlie, the well-known The technical writer, appeared in the reserved for the hulling of this of its kind in Great Britain, All the past twelve months over 11, from arrangements have been inade for 000 concrete piles have been driven British journal Combustion recent-household refuse delivered

the addition of a second last down into the solid ground below, ly. He visited the plant to study the barges. The refuse will be

furnace when necessary. taken by conveyors to a transfer co-ordination. The following extracts are from statlun for separation of material. his article:

such as tina and bottles, with finial delivery to the bankers on the top jetty is divided into three part, character; altogether about 13,800 and has a total storage capacity of these concrete piles will be used, of the power house.

of 34.200 tons of coal, 122,00 tons each one of which has its history The west end of the jetty is for of ore, and 11,5000 tons of Irens recorded on a card index in detail- the outward shipment or auto-1

stone,

being Kerved by and fashion. Some quantitative mobiles and paris, the average slectrically controlled conveyor items of interest from n con- Dagenham 01: the depth of the water at this point

con-being 20 feet, so that two 6000-rige. Approximately 10,000 tonstruction standpoint ure,-92,000 struction of which was officially ton ships can come alongside. The of coal, ore, and limestone will be tons of concrete, 2,221 miles of

required per week,

reinforced wiring, and 8,000,000 commenced on May 17, 1923, with centre of the jetty is for vessels

The coke oven equipment

con- con wooden blocks to cover the completion expected at the end of bringing cost, ore and limestone

sists of forty-five ovens with a crete floors, as well as 13,500 tons the present year or early in 1932. for the blast furnaces and coke throughput of eight hundred tons of steel in the bulldings and nearly Fail information eruit yet be oven plants.

of coal per twenty-four hours. fourteen acres of glass roofs, btained, since of

the Undoubtedly

fuel It is clainted that the coal and including three miles of gutters various plans concerned with fuel technology is concerned the quesoke handling plant of this Install and Aix miles of catwalks with and power are not completed, and tion of burning large quantities of Lion will be the finest in the world combined handrail and water pipe. in some enses the erection is only household refuse for steam and of the just begun. The whole matter, power generation is one however, is so interesting und not important

of the aspects important that it merits pre- Ford works at Dagenham, and the liminary description which the results obtained will be awaited author is able to give through the with great interest. Incidentally urtesy of the Ford Motor Com-it may be stated that the produc pany, Limited, London.

tlan of town refuse averajen V This plant will undoubtedly ton per annum per capita, so that constitute one of the largest, most Greater London, for example, with important, and most scientifically a population of over 7,000,000, organized industrial stablish- Lurns out every year about 1,750,- inents

in the world, with an 000 tons of refuse. So for the eventual calculated output of efficient use of this material is an

unsolved problem, the nature 200,000 automobiles per annum.

The whole aren of land pur- which will be rendered evident by

London that in elased on the Thames is 500 acres, the fact of which 270 meres are, reserved average cost is $1.44 per ton for down for industrinl developments, the disposal by transportation present site in active ase being the river and dumping into the about 110 acres, with a frontage Rea or onto the Thames mud flats, of 2,100 feet on the river. Essen-or piling in vast dumps. It tinlly, the scheme consists of a true, of course, that in London,

In other large towns, a certain amount of such refuse Is con- Humed, but the total of such con- sumption almost negligible. This outstanding, problem deserving of far more serious con sideration than it has received. Certainly, therefore, the Ford Company may be considered note- worthy pioneers in this field, as they have been in many

other branches of fuel technology. The power plant at Dagenham will con- tain three 1,200-pound pressure

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