Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-20
INVENTOR KNOWN IN
 EAST MAKES DISCOVERY
W. c. Cutler, Finds in Rhisofene a Burden Lishtener-ChiIIs the Gas.

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 To catch all the natural gas from i a great oil well. chill it with an ice machine. change it into rhigolene and 1 other extremely valuable liquids far l colder than ice. and then discarding l the ice machine. use these same liquids 1 to chill the restsof the gas and make more liquids, sounds like a perpetual l motion machine story. Yet this l is practically what a Los Angeles in ventor and scientist is doing with his new plant at Olinda. California. 1t is l the first strictly refrigerating plant for l the reduction of gasoline from natural gas ever established in the world, as l far as known.
 One billion cubic feet of natural gas, equal in heat and power to one million bushels of coal, is lost daily from the oil wells of America. The gas escapes into the air, in spite of mans efforts to catch 1t. This is history, ancient history Let us turn a new page. page being written here In Los Angeles, page of history which must interest people all over the world-no matter whether or not they care the snap of their fingers about oil and gas Inventor known Here w C. Cutler of Sawtelle, scientist, inventor and hard worker, who is we'll known in this vicinity has way to catch this gas which is proving mary elously successful, and last week he put in operation the plant at OIlnda whereby he saves all the contents or the precious gas. The plant Is work ing now. It's success may affect the oil industry of the entire world. It may make poor oil wells profitable, en- rich these interested in good working wells, greatly extend the use Of oil and it's products all over the world and cheapen the cost of oil products and heat. light. power and refrigera- tion to the general public.
 By cheapening the now precious pro. duets such as rhigolene, cymogene and melthame, with a boiling point 256 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit some extraordinary feats may be accom- pIished in household economy, to the delight of the housewife.
 What She Can Do.
 With a single tank of one of these products of gas, she will be able:
 First, to cool her ice box.
 Second, run the gas through pipe and thereby light the house
 Third. heat the house.
 Fourth, do her cooking in the kitchen.
 Various burners and appliances will enable her to easily secure all these benefits from one single tank of rhlgo- lene. When the tank is exhausted, II can be replaced by the company, and the empty tank removed like gaSo- line can.
 supply of the gas product could be utilized in an office building to per form all the functions of coal or oil as 8 source of power including the running of the elevators. heating or chilling the drinking water, and heat ing and light the building from top to bottom.
 Supplies of rhigo1ene could be taken arross the desert to mines and other industries where power is unobta1nable. camper or yachtsman could take along small tank and apparatus, and chill the drinka bles and cook the game -1ar- I1a T1~lc
 Other Benefits.
 Some of the other benefits of the discovery. are said to be these: h. numerahle poor oil wells now practi- caIly of no value, will become profit able properties, enriching thousanos of people; all good oil wells will be greatly enhanced in value by the use of thes process of saving the natural gas now lost; gas containing three quarters of gallon of gasoline may Ee worked prof1tably now, whereas formerly at least one and haf gal Ions of gas was required; cost of oil and gasoline will be reduced to the public owing to ease of segregation or 1 cIassed and lowering of cost Of pro- duction;
 Heat, light refrigeration and power | in cities reasonably accessible tos oil territory will be obtainable at much | lower rates:
 Power, or the material whence pow l CT can be easily made, as well as light, heat and refrigeration. will become 1 portable.
 Chiiis the Gas.
 Briefly, Cutler chilIs the gas and thus cheaply gets the valuable gaso- line and higher products.
 Cutters plant is first strictly re- frigerating plant. Other scientists have been getting about 10 per cent of l the gasoline from gas by means Of They have done valu- able work along these lines. Notable among them Is another Southern Cali fornia man, J. F. vordernnark. secre- | tary of the Pacific Gasoline company of Los Angeles. one of the foremost experimenters in America, who IS an expert on compression
 Cutters method, in brief, Is to chill the gas as it escapes from the oil well, and thus obtain all its valuable products. First he caps the well com pletely; then by the natural pressure If the gas from the well it flows a pipe to a number of con tainers Each container is of diff ferent temperature, gradually getting lower.
 For example. the first tank may be IS degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, the second 25 degrees below, and so on Tn the first tank will be precipitateo the first product; the second will get the next product, about c go per cent gravity gasoline the third, TO per cent gravity: the next, 80 per cent grade, and so forth. until rhfgolene, eymogene, mathene and other extreme y valuable products are obtained. fthiEolene is worth about $5 a gallon.
 Daily Capacity.
 The Cutler plant has daily ca eaeity ef 50,6o0 cubic feet of gas, which it gets direct from an oil we'll l rhe gas is chilled by containers sup piled by the six-ton iee-nal<ing ma shine. The plant is not large, butsis suffi eientiy extensive te prove ar dis arAve the claims of the inventor.