The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-28
IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM
A Smoke Consumer That Is
Proving a Success.
A GREAT SAVING OF FUEL
II Put Into General Use in Butte the
Smoke Nuisance Would Be Greatly
Reduced Experiments Are
Very Successful.

a smoke consumer is now being tried
in Butte, and those who have watched
its operations are very decided in de-
ciarfng 1t success and believe that If
it is used generally in Butte the smoke
annoyance win be greatly reduced
The smoke consumer is a Butte ap-
pliance. and is now being tried on the
power boilers of the Butte IL Boston
company. j. =. Collins lis interested in
the consumer and is having it tried
wherever the experiment will be per-
mitted trial. Besides consuming the
carbon or black smoke 1t effects a saw
ing in fuel which amounts at times to
as high as q per cent, although it is
only claimed for il that 1t will effect
saving of from 10 to 20 per cent. in
fuel. This is a big item and IL ii can
be demonstrated clearly that the smoke
consumer will effect such a saving all
smelters will gladly put in the appli-
ance.
Mr.. Collins appliance is founded on
the principle that superheated steam
with hot air creates combustion. The
boiler is tapped, the steam is conducted
through the fire box and is superheat-
ed. when ii is brought in contact with
the heated air and a rolling flame pro-
duced. The carbon smoke is so effect
ually consumed that fiues which form
cry Hdu I'D ne tledUBu at FREQUENT IN
tervals now need no cleaning.
1t is not claimed for the consumer
that it will consume the sulphur
smoke. The carbon or black smoke is
waste and is combustible. The sui
phur smoke on the other hand is a
final product and cannot be burned.
Experiments were made with a view of
doing away with the sulphur smoke.
but without success
I'VE figured on this said Mr.. Collins.
but 1t seemed only possible to turn the
sulphur smoke into suphuric acid.
That would of course do away with the
annoyance of the sulphur smoke. but
we could not tell what to do with the
sulphuric acid. If it was turned into
Silver Bow creek il would kill all the
fish between here and Portland. If il
was shipped we estimated that it would
take train day To carry away the
acid and there would be no market for
such an enormous quantity.
but while we cannot get rid of the
sulphur smoke by our consumer, we do
claim that the use of the consumer will
do away with the carbon smoke and
greatly reduce the amount of sulphur
smoke in the air. This viii be brought
about in this way. The heavy, black
smoke being out of the way the sui
phur smoke, held down by the black
smoke. will be free TO rise, and thus
very much of it will leave US. Then
besides. the black smoke being out Of
the way. the rays of the sun would
penetrate the sulphur smoke, heat the
earth and thus force the sulphur
smoke upward
The mayor recently witnessed the
operation of the consumer at the Butte
d Boston smelter, and was greatly
pleased with the work done and he be-
lieves the consumer is a success. An
ordinance providing for the use of con-
sumers will probably be introduced in
the council soon.
The consumer was also tried recently
at Clark's Colusa- Parrot mine. Two
boilers were selected, the consumer be-
ing attached to one and the other run
as usual the boiler not having the con-
sumner being a new boiler with tues
carefully cleaned. a record was kept
and with the same amount of work the
boiler with the consumer attached eff
fected a saving of % per cent in fuel,
The consumers will of course be of no
service in the open air roasting at the
Butte Reduction works and the Parrot
smelter, but the doing away with the
black smoke will undoubtedly greatly
reduce the annoyance Butte suffers
from smoke.