The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-06
APPARATUS To
CONSUME SMOKE
Former Bingham Con. Metal
IurgiSt Has Scheme to Pre-
vent SmeIter Troubles.
CAN BE CHEAPLY APPLIED
PROCESS DESIGNED AS A MONEY
MAKER, AS WELL.
CAN BE CHEAPLY APPLIED
lsnecial to The Herald.)

Ely. New, Dec. 5.-A. E. Custer, for
merly CT Salt Lake, where he was
chief chemist and metallurgist for the
Bingham Consolidated, and later was
field man for the Glasgow q Western
Exploration company, has secured the
patent rights of a process TO eliminate
from smeiter smoke all noxious fumes
and fue dusts. and other substances
that are harmful to vegetation and an
imal life This process. in addition 10
eliminating the fumes and dust, saves
all the mineral values that have mere
tofore been wasted through the agency
Of the smoke and slags. Mr.. Custer has
spent a great deal of time with the
process, and it has been carried TO that
point that experimental plants IN
stalled have demonstrated the feasible
ity and practicability of the process.
Process Is a Money-Maker.
The new process does not in any
manner interfere with the draughts,
and the fumes, instead OF being
discharged into the atmosphere to
roison the air for miles about smelling
plants are deposited on the ground
in the form of insoluble substances
which will not pollute irrigation sys-
TENS, or in any manner harm Vegeta-
ton or livestock.
From these deposits by-products are
obtained of great commercial value.
and a saving of from $500 to $1,000 per
DAY can be made in plant with
capacity of from 500 to 700 tons Der
day of COPPER and lead ores. to say
nothing of the saving of cost of litiga-
ton and damages 10 surrounding prop
erty.
Many chemical facts have beeen dis
covered in the experiments which have
led to the perfection of the process
that will. in measure, revOlutionlze
certain phases of the smelter problem,
and the attendant problem Of saving
of all values in the smoke and slags
The new process can be installed in
units TO care for the smoke and slags.
for a furnace of not greater capacity
than 100 tons per day, at cost of not
10 exceed $1,000 Other units can be
added as required. at corresponding
cost. The total cost for the installa
tion of a system to treat 700-tOn,
smelter would cost from $4,000 TO $5O,-'
600. Such a plant would pay for itself,
it is claimed from the patentee, in
from two to three months.
Features of the Method.
The substance of the process consists
In the treatment of the hot smoke.
either directly with ground material in
the presence of water, or water VapOr,
or with a solution Of the sulphur gases
and Vapors in water. The general pro
Cedure of the treatment to be followed
depends upon the character of the ma
terial to be treated or used for treat
ment Of the smoke. Slags. zeolites and
so forth. can be placed in one general
class and Oxidyzed ores in a second.
Sulphuretted ores would fall in one or
the other of these divisions. depending
on the gangue of the ore. This process,
however. is primarily intended TO util-
tZe low graz de Carbonates or oxide ores
OF slags in the elimination of smelter
fumes.
As a smoke treatment and process
for the recovery Of Stag and fume
values the aim is to neutraliZe the
acid ga ses of the smoke by combining
them with the bases of the Stag. TAX
ing into solution at the same time the
combined silica of the Stag and leaving
undissolved as concentrates. the cop
per- lead, gold and silver contents I'm
the Stag, together with the values in
the fiue dust
After the dissolution Of the Stag by
the intense chemical action of the hot
gases on the moistened surfaces of its
infinitely divided particles, the liquor
containing the dissolved silica and