The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12

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SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 11.-Un-
doubtedly the paramount question of
the hour is the utilization of crude oil
as a fuel with absolute immunity from
risk of explosion.
The tests which the war department
is making with a view to using it on
warships emphasizes the enormous
scope for this new fuel when safe
basis for using it has been established.
Especially is this the case since the
discovery of an almost inexhaustible
supply of crude Oil in Texas and CAL
ifornia.
The only practical solution yet made
of this important problem is the inven-
building here.
When called upon by the writer in
reference to his latest success Mr..
Chas. III. Kuenzel said:
"The future fuel for marine engines,
or for the matter of that, any engines,
will undoubtedly be an oil product.
Not, however, until chemists and en-
gineers have mastered the secret of
making a non-exploSive gas from eth
er the crude oil or refined oil, will it be
utilized in a general way.
The L. S. government has recently
spent $4,000 in experimenting with
various methods of using oil for the
navy but has obtained no satisfactory
results.
'"The patented process by which
produce a dry gas by an admiXture of
Is per cent of crude oil and So per cent
of atmosphere has solved the problem
which thousands of people are trying
to get at.
'"This dry gas will solve many prob
lens which the engineers are puzzling
over today Edison was after it for
years, as was myself, but he did not
get it yet One brain cannot solve all
| problems. I discovered it in search
ing for fuel suitable for the pur
| poses of aerial navigation. When
found it I decided that it was appi-
| cable to more practical things. AL
ready it is thawing out gold from the
| frozen mines of Nome, where during
the past winter, operations have been
carried on by means of apparatus con-
! structed by me. Hitherto no work
could be done there except in the sum-
mer time. I spent months in planning
the apparatus, and it is working very
satisfactorily.
Motive Power for Railways.
TT is operating one of the richest
gold mines in California, and will be
supplying the motive power for rail-
way line in San Francisco shortly.
"The British admiralty is to make
| tests with my process in October" said
Mr.. Kuenzel, land if it is satisfied and
makes a good offer it will certainly get
| the exclusive use of my process for ma
| val purposes. l have no money to buy
my way into favor at Washington, and,
! moreover, do not need to. My process
| is the most practicable and easily ap-
| plicable for motive power of anything
I have yet seen.
''Those who are seeking to solve the
] oil fuel problem will find it impossible
to get a permit from the city where
they want to use it until it will stand
all tests, as mine has done, to the sat
isfaction of the city authorities of San
Francisco, where ships, railroad sys
TENS and factories are waiting to be
equipped with my system
81 have spent months on the coast
experimenting with their oil, and fl
nally demonstrated that it could be
| used as satisfactorily as the refined oil
with my apparatus.
when | reached California, I went
to a large manufacturing plant and
| asked the engineer for a bottle of
crude oil. The engineer got the bottle
filled with it, and I said: What do you
burn, oil or water?'
Steam Atomizes the Oil.
'"The engineer was surprised and an
swered: Why" Then said: There is
about. 4 of water in your bottle, on
top you see the oil and the rest is wa
ter; this is the same thing with the
oil you burn in your boiler the steam
atomizes the oil. If the water were
cold it would not atomic, about 65 per
cent of the oil you atomize through the
steam flies out through the chimney,
hence your black smoke Yes" said
the engineer, that is So How about
making your fire smaller than you
have it now?' I asked. and the engi-
neer said, IF I take steam away have
too strong an oil feed, and if I take
oil feed away 1 will only have steam
in the firebox.' I then said: This oil
burning process is older than / am 1t
is impossible to mix steam with oil in
the pipe, and it is also impossible to
mix oil with steam in the furnace, and
the steam is the only benefit
Il then took a blue print and said
See here, have mixer. If you COM
press air to a certain pressure and to a
certain degree of Fahrenheit it makes
an oxygen gas that will not burn I'M
less mixed with some liquid; but if the
oxygen is, under a certain degree Of
Fahrenheit, properly mixed inside the
pressure chamber it will instantly form
fine light gas. This has to be ac-
con1plished under pressure, it mostly
/ depends upon the construction of the
norsals. The wider the chamber after
the mixing chamber the easier the
compressed air will part from the oil,
but the smaller the ends of the norsals
the finer the gas can be produced and
the main part of our apparatus is the
burner. Almost every engineer be-
lieves that oil must be burned under
a high pressure; but this is not so.
have used 80-Ib. air pressure, the only
benefit 1 had was that used more oil
and the oil and air had no chance to
become a dry gas, but the smaller