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THE Chemical Engineering Group of the Society of Chemical Industry met on July 16 at the forty-fourth annual meeting of the Society at Leeds. Three important papers on features of coal carbonisation were read before a crowded audience, and the discussion had to be adjourned to another session proposed to be held in Leeds in the autumn. Solid fuels were dealt with in two papers: “Smokeless Fuels—the Present and Future Possibilities,” by C. H. Lander and Margaret Fishenden, and “Solid Smokeless Fuels,” by E. C. Evans. In the former paper the British fuel situation was analysed, particularly with the view of estimating the possibility of establishing new carbonising industries. If all coal were to be pre-carbonised, the disposal of gas and tar would become considerable problems. If domestic fuel only were to be carbonised, this difficulty would be much less, but it was considered that a coke of much more suitable character than that currently produced in gas works would be required. The domestic fuel market is the most promising outlet for carbonised fuel of suitable character. It was concluded that the most suitable carbonisation process to meet this need cannot be defined with certainty. The solution of the problem may prove to be not in any single method of carbonisation but in several, each operating in circumstances most favourable to its requirements.
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The Carbonisation of Coal. Nature 116, 298 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116298a0
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