The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-07-09
STINK WAGON FUEL IS
NOW COMING FROM
COAL
ENGLISH EXTRACTING BBNzoL
SATISFACTORILY.
Product Gives off Very Little II ANY
Poisonous Fumes and Is Looked
Upon With Favor As Substitute
For Gssoline-spnng Canyon Coal
Company Tests Compensation Law.


In most of the European countries. |
where every gallon of motor spirits |
has TO be- imported. they are using |
benzol. The war gave the first real |
impetus to the production of benzol |
IN quantity by the scientific carbon |
ization of coal by the English. who
found that the extraction of bcnzol |
from the coal gas meant NO loss Of
illuminating power. and of the seven /
teen million tons of coal used in Bri- !
ish gas works in 1918. six million tons |
were scientifically treated and an
output of forty-two million gallons /
of bcnzol obtained England in lgl8I
consumed for her domestic purposes |
alone more than two hundred million /
tons of coal. The total amount of
bcnzol required is two hundred mill
hon gallons. which could be obtained
easily by treating only q small part |
uf coal burned in British CRATES and !
furnaces.
For some time bcuzol was out Of
favor owing 10 is supposed bad effect
ON the automobile motor. but u ten
thousand mile test with a sixteen
horsepower ear showed conclusivoly
mo- injury Ia the engine and highly
satisfactory mileage per gallon. The
distance covered with eighty gallons
of benzol cqualcd hundred gallons
of gasoline. Bcnzol Is now being de-
hvcred IN fiity-gallon drums through
out the industrial ccntcrs of England,
and the main problem il one of dis
tribution. the fifty-gallon drum hav-
ing to compete with the two-gallon
gasoline tin, which can be obtained
IN every English village and road
side station.
In New York during the past week
several experiments have been con-
Quoted 10 prove the value Of new
substitute for gasoline. The substi-
tute is composed of 80 per cent vege-
table Gals. This substitute, the in
vcntor claims, il free and indcpen-
dent of nll oil and mining industries.
ANY vegetable containing starch or
sugar or cellulose can be utilized for
it's manufacture. These tests were
given 10 demonstrate the value Of
this new substitute:
First, a TYPICAL motor, such as Is
used in many different makes Of au-
tomobiles, was run with the mbsti-
tutc. Then the exhaust and printing
cups were opened wide and the On.
CINE run at high speed. The fumes
were discharged directly into the
room, and yet there was no odor aud
no disagrccable effects were felt,
thus proving the fuel gave off no
poisonous fumes. A small quantity
of the fuel was placed on the floor
and lighted. IL burned with BLUSH
flame. No smoke was given off, as
was the ease whom q similar amount
of gasoline was burned, thus proving
the inventor claims, that the fuel
would not cause carbon,
The alcohol is made by one formula
only, which on completion of the pro-
cess of disiillntion need not be- treat
ed IN any special way IN order 10 be
utilizable. The secret consists of the
yeast or bacteria used Ia the fermen-
tation of the vegetable matter, Fib-
r0us ar cellulose material is first cut
into pulp, then placed in a compress
sion cooler where, upon the addition
of sufficient water, IL Is boiled under
a pressure of fifty 10 sixty pounds
for three hours, The juice obtained
is put IN fermentation tanks and the
bacteria added.
Water was thrown on the new fuel
while burning and the flame eXtin-
guished. Similar experiment with
gasoline caused the flame TO spread.
Examination of the substitute When
mixed with water showed It had
changed from a ligh' yellow, iIs orig
inal color to a milky white, This
was a chemical change, the inventor
explained, and meant that the fuel
could not bee diluted,
Another test was given tu prove
that the new fuel is heavier than
gasoline and would not mix with A.,
This new fuel, the inventor claims,
can be- sold cheaper than gasoli' 3,
due Ia the fact that alcohol, which is
the larger part, can be made cheaper
than heretofore
Present plans include having the
new substitute manufactured In for
me, breweries, which can star, wnl;
after few minor changes IN their
equipment.