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FAY WRAY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932,
A BETTER CHANCE FOR COAL.
NEW "REFINING" PROCESS.
pro-
car-
-the very antithesis of what is NAVAL PARITY IN intended by the process.
"In the Salernt system, car- bonisation is stopped almost as Hoon as it begins, the object boing
MEDITERRANEAN.
to 'refine' coal with the least pos- NEW FRANCÒ-ITALLIAN
alble degree of carbontention, The function of an efficient procean is
MOVE.
Paris, Mar. 18.
to free a product of only those of It has been long agreed by its constituents the presence of
Following conversations betweer scientists that a successful which in the product is detri-
mental, having regard to the use M. Tardieu and Signor Grandi, the CORR of low temperature
to which it is to be put-the very Italian Foreign Minister at Geneva, bonisation would be the salvation effect which treatment of bitumin-n Important development la ex- of the coal Industry, The ous coal by the Salerni method pro-pected in Franco-Italian relations.
The most serious obstacle to a nouncement, therefore, by Profes- duces. The function of the Salern!
Lew rapprochement in the last Bor Wheeler, of Sheffield Univer- aystem is to free bituminous conl sity, at the third International of only those of its constituents years has been the irritating ques- Congress on bituminous Coal at which are detrimental to its value tion of naval parity. It is believed
solid fuel,
that this has now been resolved. Pittsburg in November last, that and efficiency as a
re-namely, the steam and smoke-give thanks to a clover formula evolved Salerni had, after years hearch, succeeded in solving the Ing constituents, the gas-forming problems of Low Temperature constituents which provide conly the Quat d'Orsay, and which is
chief, M. Tardieu. carbonisation, aroused consider with its flaming properties, being more probably the invention of its
·This consists simply of accepting Mediterranens. Sir Eric Hambro, the bankerke, but bituminous coal in re- parity in the who is now convalescent after fined condition. It should, there-France has no reason, and
hero: from the protracted and trying illness, yes fore, be described as refined coal. never claimed any, to want terday gave to an Observer repre-] Hentative the first considered state-
able interest.
of
left in it.
"The fuel thus obtained le, not
"Not only are its chemical pro-superiority
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has naval
ment he has yet made for publica-perties as a solid fuel improved, strategic point of view equality ut Its physical properties are with Italy would fully satisfy the Lion on the Salerni procesk.
superior to those of the original requirements of security.
It is only to protect her Colonial raw coal.
communications and to guard her Northern coast against attacks from Germany that France manda a margin of tonnage. Ship-To-Ship Basis.
Relative Values,
de-
It la now proposed that the units
the designed for these two purposes should be classed aport from Mediterranean forces.
As Italy has no naval interest
"I see in the system the salvn- tion of Britain's coal industry." said Sir Erie. "The Salerni rys-
"In comparing the relative tem can bring back prosperity to the mining Industry, rid the coun- value of the process of refining try of smoke, and create a home as applied to crude petroleum and one is convinced to raw bituminous coal. supply of oil. I was that if the Salerni system were truck by the fact that, whereas established as a new industry. It the objectionable matter of which would be the surest way of remov-retroleum is freed during refining ing the cause of the present de basic sediment and dirt-is of pression. Because this was no no commercial value, a large por- time to appeal to the Government, tion of the objectionable matter of outside the Mediterranean, she frees need not count these units a con- or even the public, for finance. which the refining process decided to take upon myself the bituminous coal is recoverable instituting a French superiority and responsibility for the provision of the form of valuable oil for as she will be on a ship-to-ship arrangement the initial funds to develop this tunate circumstance which should basis Inside it, the
Bame thing has a further incentive to the el will come to the uwer not to market his product
parity.
Italian prestige-the chief dim- in the raw state.
of bitu "Assuming that a ton
culty in all previous negotiations- minous coal is, after treatment.will thus be satisfied, while France reduced in weight to, say, sixteen will have the right to
kystem.
R
the navy
"If the producers of petroleum had been content to place upon the market their product in the raw state petroleum would not have made its present inroads hundredweights, the sixteen which she considers necessary for upon the preserve of coal-produc-dredweights of refined fuel will ing countries; nor is there hope of the encroachment being arrested unless the policy of asking the consumer to use coal in the crude state in which it leaves the pits is abandoned.
when vonsumed under a common boiler, or in a household grate give off as much useful heat as the original ton of coal, the difference in weight representing not usetul Fuel lost, but the water and smoke eliminated.
"Therefore, in the
matter of
result a
the
the triple function of protecting her two coasts and assuring
elona. fiaison with her oversens
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The new proposal, which is new only in form, its content being merely a restatement of the French thesis, will be discussed in Petroleum Gaining Favour.
al handling alone, Keneral examination of the various "One of the chief reasons why transport
a substantial differences between the two coun- to open petroleum is gaining favour even which represents
In-part-in many enses, the larger tries which is expected
shortly. as a household fuel-as, for
would stance, in central heating installa-part of the cost of coal to the tions is because hent treatment consumer, there makes it burn efficiently. With most material saving.
Perhaps the main advantage of the price at which the product cun out hent treatment, petroleum would not have stood a chance as the process of refining coal is the be put upon the market without de per- Temoval of the inordinate depre-jcreasing the profit of the mining a fuel avainst coal. 1 am
pre-bdustry. Indeed, that profit could
be increased. "unded that the coal mining indus- ciation which coal slack t
"I have been extremely gratified try must take a leaf out of its sunt suffers.
"The production of enal slack is: rival's book. Bituminous conl can. and should, also be improved by the chief reason why coal is to with the tremendous interest that heat treatment to free it from its day fighting a losing battle against has been taken all over the coun costs astry in the plans for development steam and smoke-giving constitu-petroleum Coal slack ents without less of any of 11s much to ralac as coal in lump, and of the system, although, owing to solid fuel, because of its small market value, my illness, I have, so far, been on- useful properties as a The Salerni system provides the the price demanded for lump coal able to take an active parl.
"I am convinced we have in the must be increased to such a point means of achieving this.
As in many eases to lead to the Salerul syrtem the sure means of coal- Irestoring prosperity to our "The word carbonisation does use of petroleum in its place.
"The refining of a colliery's out-mining industry, providing the pot seem appropriately to describe
im-put would raise the value of slack indispensable supply the process. Carbonisation plies its transformation into coke to the level of that of coal in lump,produced oil, and improving -e coal robbed of density, and would consequently make pos-all-important trade balance calorific value, and daming proper-ible a very material reduction injunemployment problems."
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