Abstract
THE scope of this book is sufficiently indicated by its title and sub-title. The accounts of the manufacture of gas coal and water gas, including purification, are brief but clear, and the illustrations are good. There is mention of “great pressure setting up heat” in stacks of coal (p. 6), and “high heats” (pp. 81–82), meaning high temperatures. The account of the reaction in the gas producer is out-of-date, while washing with anthracene oil might have been mentioned as a method of removing “naphthalene, that mysterious bugbear.” The fact that carbon monoxide is dangerously poisonous is also worthy of mention to junior gas engineers. The book should be very interesting to students of chemistry as well as to those intending to enter gas works.
Town Gas Manufacture: A Practical Introductory Treatment of the Equipment and Processes of an Average Gas Works, for Students, Junior Gas Engineers, and others connected with Gas Works.
Ralph
Staley
By. Pp. xii + 108. (London: Sir I. Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1922.) 2s. 6d. net.
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Town Gas Manufacture: A Practical Introductory Treatment of the Equipment and Processes of an Average Gas Works, for Students, Junior Gas Engineers, and others connected with Gas Works . Nature 109, 774 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109774c0
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