OIL FROM COAL

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1933, Page 11

OIL FROM COAL

SOUTH WALES SCHEME

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, September 19. In connection with the proposals for the production of petrol and heavy fuel oil from British coal, a schema for the erection of ten low-temeprature carbonisation plants .and ,0110 hydrogenation plant, at -a' t6tal ' cost of £7,000,000, was considered by the Industrial Development Council of South Wales'at a-meeting at Cardiff yesterday.

It .was estimated that, the , hydrogenation plant would; produce 100,000 tons of petrol annually from about 364,000 tons of coal, providing permanent employment for about 15,000 men for one year. The ten low-tem-perature carbonisation plants would treat 3,650,000 tons of coal annually, producing about 240,000 tons of heavy oil, 140,000 tons of light oil, 70,000 tons of petrol, 3,220,000,000 cubic feet of surplus gas, and 3,520,000 tons of smokeless fuel. These plants would provide permanent employment for 4000 miners and 1400 progress workers and temporary work for 1200 men for one year. . The projects were fully discussed, and the scheme was ultimately referred to a committee already appointjed to investigate the question, with power to add technicians and commercial representatives to the number, and to report ti.'a. further meeting of the council.