FUEL OIL FROM COAL
CLAIMS FOR AUSTRALIA In Australia the Government appointed a committee some time ago to investigate the claims of two chemical engineers, who have been experimenting in extracting oil from coal by a process of distillation, in which the yields were claimed to be 100 per cent, greater than had been obtained in England from English coal.
To put it in another way, 35 gallons per ton of crude oil had been obtained by the Australian experimenters as against gallons in England. The committee has been putting the oil to the test. In some preliminary trials it was used as fuel in a motor lorry and a tractor. The tests were severe, and are said to have been remarkably successful. It is estimated that the distilled oil can be made and sold in Australia to the farmers for tractor driving at a price which will reduce the cost of farming. Further trials are to be made, the object being to support a recommendation that has been put to the Government for a subsidy to assist the experimenters.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume VL, Issue 3133, 12 February 1934, Page 6
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180FUEL OIL FROM COAL Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume VL, Issue 3133, 12 February 1934, Page 6
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