The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-04-23

~ x aad made two chemical dis
NIX ayeries OF experimenting
MS Importance One. il was
announced. viii greatly in.
ereast taa production Of gasoline: the
anno nt stated that the other
wiil make TIE United States indepen-
dent ot ,nc rest OF the world in the
production on materials necessary for
the y, industry and the manufacture
% h-gh explosives. These discoveries
have the double importance OF being
81 tie h'shest interest scientifically
ana proha-ly OF lhe highes, value com
'ncrcIullr
The Old method Of refining petro.
ieum was 20 heat up the material in
still and condense the vapors comlng
on Gasoline is all of the yap0r
which passes OF up to 15o degrees cen
Upgrade This was a simple distilla-
ton process. The experimental work
Of Doctor Rttman has been done al
various ra1Ees ~ pressure from up 10
nearly soc bounds per square inch
down a. partial vacuum AMI at ranges
OF temperature from 1000 degrees cen
tigrade down TO the lowest tempera-
ture ar which the apparatus could be
worked
I'm his laboratory az Hayemeyer hall
II Columbia university he has an ex-
perimental apparatus which occupies
one end Cf a small room and in which
he can make experiments upon any oil
lssr ~ he
results are carefully tabulated and the
products produced are analysed. BE
fore carrying out these actual expert
ments, however. the problem was at
tackled from the purely theoretical
side
Working from a theoretical stand
point. The expected results we're
mapped out and then the experiments
were tried under the chosen condi-
lions IN order 20 either verify or dis
prove the representations. Using this
general method of procedure the re-
search vas carried on and the discoy-
cry made Of the conditions necessary
10 produce larger yields OF gasoline
from petroleum. Later were found the
conditions necessary for the produc-
ton OF touol and benzol from petro-
leum
The consumption Of gasoline BY au-
romobiies. motor cycles. aeroplanes.
motor boats. and the various types Of
internal combustion engines used for
power has increased enormously in the
last few years. The increase in the
numb 81 motor vehicles shows this.
for. according 20 the best estimates.
there we're. in 1910. $4,000 such We
nhles: Ia 1912 there were 100000.
while az the present time the number
has reached 100000 Upon the as
sumption that each motor vehicle uses
ten barrels Of gasoline per year the
demand from this source alone would
be 4 3 900 900 barrels of AZ gallons each.
The gasoline exported and that used
for other purposes makes our annual
consumption reach total OF about
25 600 .0a0 gallons which is the pres
emit production.
The supply has not been increasing
as fast as the demand. however. and
even now il would be inadequate were
II not for the fact that in the last three
years many new processes have been
patented for increasing most of the
production. These have had no com
mercial value, however. except one
the Burton process, which Is con
frolled by the Standard Oil company
The situation which developed whei
years ago was an interesting one. Tbs
supnly OF gasoline was so nearly eX
cecded by the demand that the situa
tion was very critical and the price
was high. There was a real gasoline
problem." II seemed impossible e
meet the increasing demand with al
adequate supply.
Benzol was also put forward as ;
substitute. IL was found possible &
use this material for motor vehicle
In Europe 10 certain extent by EN-
ployinr special carburetors. although
II was not entirely satisfactory.
After all, nothing was really able 4
take the place OF gasoline in being en-
tirelv satisfactory. nor was there al
adequate supply OF any other material
n was al this time that the STANDARD
oil company solved the "gasolin
problem" by utilizing the Burton proc
ess. which gave prospect OF an abur
dance OF gasoline for some years a
least
However the Independent refiu
cts. who we're prevented by tn
patents from using this superior metl
Cd OF distilling their crude oil coul
not materially increase their outpu