The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-19
NE w G0AL BURNING METHOD ID MEAN BIG FUEL SAVING
Gasoline Can Be Produced At 6 Gents Per Gallon, h.
 VeStigatorS Declare
NOW CONSTRUCTING NEW BUILDINGS FOR PROCESS
Auto Man Will Use Fuel From His Own Mines In The
 Southern States

NEW YORK, August 1S.-A method of burning coal twice and thus ma terially reducing cost of automobile manufacturing has been perfected by a firm of New York chemists and taken over by Henry Ford, accord ing to Emil Pieron, who, with his as- sociate, V. z. Caracristi, conducted the experiments.
 "The method is practicable and Is a success beyond all doubt" Pieron declared today
 Mir. Ford is now engaged in con- structing buildings at Detroit where the new process will be put into op- eration."
 One of the principal by-products will be gasoline, which can be pro- dpeed at an estimated cost of 6 cents a gallon. Thus the joys of motoring are likely to be brought within easy reach of nearly everybody in the country, if the new process proves workable when it is actually put into operation on commercial basis. Makea Many Products.
 Each ton of coal burned by Ford under this process will produce coke, with which he can make his own steel Instead of buying it. as at pres ent--motor gasoline, lubricattng oil, fertilizer. ereosots, gas and grease, Pieron said.
 The experiments which resulted in today's announcement of success were made in laboratory in West Virginia and were financed by Ford
 The next step is construction of buildings at the Ford plants in both the United States and Canada, where the cheapest grade of coal will be used.
 making cars will be so materially re- dgced that it will be possible for MT. Ford to make further price reduc-.
 The cost of motoring will be still further slashed by the production or cheap lubricating oils and grease.
 In other words, as each "fliVVer' goes through the factory, it's gaso- line, oil and grease will be manufac- tured as a sideline at hitherto un- heard of prices.
 Ford is understood to be figuring on using coal from his own mines In West Virginia, transporting 1t to his plants over his own railway lines.
 One of the principal savings, if the process works out in actual practice, will be in steel, making his own coke, Ford expects to be able to erect his own steel mills and thus obtain steel at rock bottom prices.
 Improves Methods.
 I'ieron in explaining the new meth cd said that it was really in the nature of an improvement over exist ing systems. Coke has been produced from coal for many years and there have been repeated efforts to obtain additional by y-products but with in- different success.
 By the Pieron- Carachristi method, the coal will be distilled at much lower Iemperatures than heretofore Under heaC coa gives off various gases. These gases, when cooled, may be condensed into liquids. This, in brief, is the nature of the pro- cess. There have been many disputes between scientists as to whether best results could be obtained from distil- Pieron believes that a greater Quan- tfty of by-products is available at low temperature and, as this method is much less costly than the high temperature system and low grade coal can be used, it is the one which has been adopted.
 The coal is passed through a cham Der heated to the requisite tempera- ture and the gases rise from 1t. They are passed in other temperatures and resolve themselves into different pro- duets.
 Coke can be produced al s4.46 a ton, Plerson said, and from it briquets can be made, to be burned in house. hold furnaces and grates 1t half the cost of anthracite. The cost of gas will be reduced from 60 cents a thou sand cubic feet to seven or eight cents with other reductions in pro- portion, Pieron said.