The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-31

Is changed into oil gas and that IS tho
reason why the percentage OF carbon
mouONide iu carbureted water gas Varies
with the CaudicpoWer.
Composition of Gases.
A Iow-caudIep0werW water gas is mix
ure, say, OF 20 per cent water gas and
30 per cent OF oil gas. The oil gas has
no carbon mouCxide iu ft. or practically
none; the water gas has the IS or pos
sibly sd per cent OF carbon mouoXide.
The high-candlepoWer carbUreted water
sas is mixtoure Of say 90 per ceu-
water gas with 90 per cent of oil gas
Naturally the hIgh-candlepoWeF water
gas has less carbon mOuOEide iu &C.
than the lOw-caudlepOWer carburetcd
water gas ] could see it was not per-
lectiy clear It Us very common. part
or my business is the carrying on OF q
correspondence class Ip gas engineering.
IT IS phIiauthTOpic thing. not on my
part but the students are not expected
20 pay anything FOR their education III
is gotten up bv the gas companies or
we JhlJed states, and the gas men.
VINO contribute about $1,000 or 5000 u
year
Mr. MOORE-The oil product is made
miXed2
Method of Making Gas.
Mr. FORSTALL-It can be made thar
way, bat in the ordinary process Of
making carDureLed water gas there are
three vessels, three shells. wrought iron
sheiis Hhed with Gre brick. one of them
is hlied with anthracite coal or coke.
any cafoondce0us fuel The other +v-,
are nlled with brick. filed In on a5as
win spaces Ia between. The u-ater. go
- liiaus III me vessel that IS filed with
I I,.s 90 eiI- ihe OF gas Is made ia the
and the OIL gas Is mixed with the vafes
gas just as soon as it is made
mere are certain manufacturing rea-
sons why II IS better TO make II fba-
way tn&h 20 IS 70 make IT. in two SEM
aIaLe plants. The gas plant of which
MI. Love spoke to YOU made It's u-sfss.
sds ana OH gas In two separate opera
~-Jt T., Il ne Walef gas was made first
put IN a holder. and then taken out oil
that holder and the naDhtha y-ano~g
added 10 IL, and then the oil gas and
h5Phtha ,Xapors passed through a retort.
MI SIMS-Iu other words the uy4rar,
a mixed gas?
Made Separately Until Recently.
Mr.. FORSTALL-Exactlv and ,,nt.l
very recently there were any number or
planf1 In Brooklyn IN which tho rv-o
were made as an entirely sepsrsfa
proposition The oil gas was made =,
one plant, the water -as in another.
and they were naked after each leff
its apparatus.
Mr. SIMS-Iu making this water gas
aHo tie OIL gas where does the COaI
- come ~ IN that same product
MT FORSTALL-Tha is made as an
entirely separate proposition
the Other2
AE FORSTALI-Tha deDends. Fl,
is H5Hrr-
the holder after the entire manufsc-
turing treatment has been given TO aha
gas. Iu other plants it Is mixed i'm
ne olheFF part Of the plant, known rs
Mr. sIaIs-What is the object Of mix
ms coal gas. with Carbureted water
Water Gas Enriches Coal Gas.
Mr. FORSTALL-I should rather say
1t was usually considered the other
way, YOU mix the Carbureted water Gas
'.ith the coal gas to enrich it.
AR Substitution the coal gas2
DIr. FORSTALL-Ycs
AIR SIAIS-Talle it here: it has been
stated that so per cent of carbureted
water gas is mixed with - Der cent OF
coal gas What Is the benefit OF that
Mr.. FORSTALL-You get the benefit
OF cheapenlug the manufacture. II iE
were not for the coal gas YOU would
nave 10 DuE all the Iuel necessary TO
make the water gas, and probably &C
higher price than you can furnish
your own coke for, ahCs having the ap-
paratus TO produce the coal gas, il IS
great deal cheaper to use it to make
coke ana use that In the water gas
than it would be to let it stand idle
and make it all water gas.
Economy in Manufacture.
Mr.. SIIS-It is an economy IN ths
Manufacture?
Mr.. FORSTALLr-Tes. OF course
when you get 10 that proportion, it is
simply d case Of using apparatus that
YOU have. You probably would not de-
sign a new works and start out with
that proportion between the two gases
MI SI1IS-u other words, then, ina
object of mixiug is - oeneht to manu-
facture, without any special reference
10 the gas that IS DFOduc6dE
Mr. FORSTALI-EeS. It IS beucHg
TO the manufacture, and III these pres
ent days of regulation It can not BEN
eft the manufacture at low cost OF
production without benen'lug the con-
sumner at the same time.
While Commissioner Barker has treat
ed the history of the Introduction of
rarburcted water gas from the Massa-
chusetts standpoint, II may De just as
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