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A BKOADSITBBT entitled “The Gas Industry in War-Time”(No, 210), which has been issued by Political and Economic Planning, brings up to date the report issued by PEP just before the War. It gives a concise factual account of the structure of the industry, including a note on the work of the Gas Research Board, to which gas undertakings repre-senting 76 per cent of the gas output of Great Britain are now allied. Civil defence measures, man-power, the effect of the War on the distribution of demand, prices, fuel economy, coal supplies, gas quality, coke-oven gas, and trends in regard to coke and by-products are briefly surveyed. In regard to the last, six committees have been set up to investigate specific problems related to the replacement of imported by home-produced fuels, and to the most effective utilization of the latter in war-time, in particular the possibility of increasing the amount of liquid products-tar, creosote, benzene, toluene, etc.-obtained by high-temperature carbonization in gas-works and coke-ovens. Considerable progress has been made in the use of creosote pitch as a boiler and furnace fuel, although its high viscosity involves certain difficulties.
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The Gas Industry in Great Britain. Nature 152, 352 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152352b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152352b0