NEW SOURCE OF PETROL
MADE FROM WASTE. Discovered in the laboratory of the University of Minnesota, a new source of petrol that seems to promise economical production has been announced. In research work done for the American Petroleum Institute, the scientist has extracted petrol, petroleum oils and other allied products from methane gas, which in modern processes of refinery is mostly wasted. Methane, commonly known as marsh gas, has a very low carbon content, and the cost of producing petrol from it is at present prohibitive commercially. Those conducting the research, however, feel confident that further tests with propane, ethylene and butane, other gases wasted in refining and having higher carbon contents, will produce fuel and lubricants from waste at attractive prices.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 13, 16 January 1932, Page 10
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