Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1917 — GETS COAL POWDER FROM waste PAPER [ARTICLE]

GETS COAL POWDER FROM waste PAPER

Method Having Proved Successful, Company la Formed to Make Fuel. A report received by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce at Washington. D. C., from E. H. Dennison, United States consul general at Christiania, states that a Swedish engineer has invented a substitute for coal. The inventor. R. V, Streulenert of Gothenburg, hat 5 * evolved a process that produces “coal powder” from sulphite lye, the waste product of sulphite factories. “It may seem strange,” states Consul General Dennison, "that coal can be produced from lye, but the following will explain the reason: “Under the sulphite process only 45 per cent of the weight of the timber is utilised. The remainder falls as refuse into the lye, and it is this (over one-half of the timber) which Mr. Strenlenert’s process transforms into coal. "It is stated that his process produces a coal powder almost equal in process has been tested and proved to the satisfaction of Norweigan interests. A company under the title of Sulphite. COaL limited, has been formed with a manimum capital of 1428,000 to exploit it “It is estimated that, if coal powder is made of all sulphite lye refuse in Norway, 30 per cent of the import coal will be replaced. The works will be erected in the vicinity of the sulphite mill at Greaker, so that the lye may be transferred to the coal factory direct from the sulphite kilns. The development of the Strelenert process on a large scale in the United States, it is believed, ultimately would reduce the cost of paper by enabling manufacturers to utilize waste product for fuel. Rudolph Hering, the New York ex pert, who has made garbage and waste surveys in various large cities; proposed in a recent report to gather up ashes and garbage In the same wagons and bum them together. Forty per cent of the heating value of the coal remains in the ashes taken from the average residence furnace, he said. The expert’s report gave a Kansas fifty man an idea. Now, when he puts coal in his furnace, he puts two or three shovels of ashee on top of it This makes the coal burn slower, does away with the necessity of adjusting the draft and the ashes are burned, too. He says he finds that three shovels full of coal and two of ashes will eventually burn down to about three shovels full of ashes. He now sorts his ashes and does not throw any away until after they have been re-burned. He also burns his garbage. Wet garbage, thrown on top the coal, gives gnmewhat the same advantage as dampani* l ? coal does, he believes. Alan the garbage has some heating value.