The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-26
PTRoLEo- CALCIUM Gas L1sHT.-

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 0As 4ALSaA.--
From a careful and thorough investi-
CATION OF the mode and character o
manufacturing gas by the Petroleo-Cal-
cium Gas Company, of our city, we
have CLEANED the following facts. fur
nished US by practical gas men, and as
certained by series OF actual tests.
This gas has been in successful use for
several months at the brewery Of
Messrs. Reilly, Hobbs & Barnes, in this
city; and we deem it deserving OF the
attention of all city gas works, as
well as of smaller towns, suburban
villages, and even single dwellings. 1t
| promises to work revolution In the
manufacture OF gas, and is we'll worthy
I of public investigation r
First, it can be attached to any coal
gas works now in operation, with
out stopping or cooling down the
furnace, at a cost ranging from
tifty dollars to one hundred and
htty dollars according to capacity,
and only requires few hours to apply
II. BY making two-tbirds OF the gas
from coal and one-third from residuum
oil and lime, it is claimed that six re-
tortS Will make as much gas in the
same time as nine by the ordinary pro-
cess, requiring no more labor, no more
tueland not so much lime, thereby
saving the cost of constructing and
maintaining the three extra retoTts,
| which is quite an item in itself; and
precisely the same amount OF coke is
| furnished in proportion to the coal
! furnished, as by the other process, and
no more labor or fuel required. The
introduction of the residuum oil and
lime into the retortS in the manner in
which it Is done, not only imparts the
calcium or white light, but with such
IN Fak.W nfNgF
Clarksburg or Nova Scotia, in which
there is not so much sulphur
as Wheeling coal, the purifier
can be dispensed with altogether, asAhe
sulphur OF the coal unites with the lime
under the heat of the retort, and forms
a new product-the snlphuret of lime,
or calcii sulphurettum, and entirely
destroys the obnoxious odor of the gas.
Besides, the lime prevents the fncrus-
tatiOn on the inside Of the retorts-au-
other important item to gas men. The
coke produced by this process Is better
for manufacturing purposes than that
produced in the ordinary way.
OF the gas produced by the new pres
sure, 100 feet Will burn as long as l5O
feet of the other, under the same pro-
cess, through the same metre, in the
same burners. 1t is also claimed that
two of the burners using the calcium
gus, have quite as much, il not more
of the best coal gas; and that the
company adopting II can afford to fur
nish gas to consumers at a less price
than now with the advantage of giving
aIuperiOr light, and then realize 20 OF &c
per cent. more profit.
1t may be manufactured on a smaller
scale for use in dwellings, schools, fac
tories, &C., with residuum oil and lime
alone, by filling the retort simply with
fine coke or coal cinders, with damp
ed Stacked lime, burned either from oys-
ter she'll or limestone. All these modes,
together with the use of lime in the re-
tort with coal alone, the com pany's
patent covers. They are prepared to
construct and are now putting up
works of different sizes, so constructed
when desired as TO make IA double Hue
over the retort, and make a heater to
warm up the building with what would
otherwise be waste heat.
The gas thus manufactured being too
rich in carbon, the company attach
u self-wOrking mixer to the
metre to feed in 40 per cent. of air.
Even then they find that one foot OF
this gas burns as long in the same
burner as 20 feet of coal gas, and
makes a better light.