Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-28
CRACKING PROCESS
WILL CUT GASOLINE
Proper Handling of Cruda
Should Produce Fuel to
Retail at 25c Gallon.

Many pau,cky reports are flying
around ir r,rHrt 20 gasoline. These
may bc divided into GLASSES. one con-
slsi. ol predictions as 10 lhc price o.
gasoline no the near future. some
forcclstius quotations oi 30 cents a
gallon wholesale before the war is
over The other class concerns the
production of the fuel Itself. and these
reports have gone TO the extent OF
declaring that tho apex oi oil output
in This country has been reached.
one OF the men best posted on the
production OF oil m thus country and
who has been called time and again
10 the service of the oil industry when
kuuty problems arose Is Dr &. h.
Chandler. founder OF the school Of
Mines OF Columbia university ana a
scientist of international reputation.
Doctor Chandler does not share In
these alarms. neither as to the pro-
lonEod high price OF gasoline nor as
20 a diminutlou IN the output of oil.
In his long career he has become IA
muar with alarms of this kind, ana
has seen one after another of them
h1uiShcd by science or by new eN
ploration.
Science Is already at hand with rc-
lief for the present situation through
the discovery of new processes, not
yet widely known to the public, he
says Thc processes consist Of new
applications of the principle of
Cracking" bv-prcdGcts OF petroleum
or tho OF, itself and thus obtaining "A
greatly increased supply OF gasoline.
Asted Is to what would afford 'e-
lief g. the present situation, Doctor
Chandler said.
BY fuller application Of the
cracking process which consists In
breaking up the heavier oils of pctro-
lcum. II the py-prOducts are not SUI
ncicnt to supply the needs there is no
reason why they should not break up
the burning oil II burning oil is only.
say 10 cents a gallon, and you can
get about GO or 20 per cent OF gaso-
line out Of II by cracking and sell
that for 25 cents or 30 cents "a gallon.
It would hc profitable enterprise,
but Of course, 4 would not he as
profitable as 1t Is TO use gas oil at I
or cents 1 gallon which, by Hairs
process. yields 20 per cent of gasolinc.
There are several other cracking
processes besides that Of Mr.. Hairs.
For example, the Barton process,
which is used by the Standard oil
company. the Hittman process, which
is being exploited by the department
of the interior, and some others All
these produce gasoline either from
crude petroleum or from the hy-prud-
ucts. and they all greatly increase the
yield of gasoline.
There is no doubt the solution lies
in this direction. The oJtput of oil
IL constantly increasing in quantity,
and If It is not sufficient to supply the
required amount of gasoline by the
ordinary process of fractional distil-
lltlon. the yield can hc increased
without greatly increased cost by the
Cracking processes, which are not
expensive.
These processes are all new and
have not yet been put ~ operation on
"A large scale As soor as they have
been introduced on a considerable
scale II ought to be possible 10 pro-
ducC all the gasoline required ut rca-
sonablc prices. | should think II
could bc done SO as to make 1t posi-
bic To retail gasoline at from 20 cents
to Is cents u gallon, perhaps less
In regard to the Likelihood OF a