Producer Gas Plant in Glass Manufacture

JSGT 1935 V19 T330-T338

The paper discusses a number of points in the design and operation of gas producers, including the size of the producers, the gas mains, the cost of power and steam in operating the producers, the choice of coal and the handling of the coal and ash. A description is given of a regulator which the author has found satisfactory in controlling the presence of the producer gas supply. The utility of clean, cold producer gas for glass furnaces is referred to.

F. J. Hurlbut