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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Other illustrations represent the orig-inal detail of the retorts and a completelayout of the carbonizing units accord-ing to the original design as constructedfrom the old water-gas sets. Still another set of illustrations showthe final design and layout of these units.Reference to these pictures will presentthe changes that were made in the orig-inal design. air was blown for the combustion of theproducer gas. The sensible heat of theproducer gas was sufficient to ignite itwhen in contact with the air blast. Thewaste combustion gases were led outthrough a tunnel in the bottom of theretort and up through the superheater,which was therefore utilized merely asa stack. The distillation products from thecarbonization of the pits were carriedoff by means of steam siphons into thewashbox and upwards through thescrubber. Both these pieces of apparatusremoved all the tar and liquor from thehot distillation gases and, consequently. Pacific Service Magazine 309 Cj^os3 Ss-cr/o/v P>.Q-£ Co.
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Q//r///////// )/ce £^/cvohon ofSeotion-Carbon P/aiiTFinal layout of carbonizing units at the charcoal plant. 310 Pacific Service Magazine only the permanent gases were dis-charged into the atmosphere. Develop-ments were under waj for the utilizationof the distillation products as fuel whenthe plant was shut down by official order. Reference to the flow sheet of theprocess will give a complete picture ofthe operations carried out at the plant. The raw materials were brought intothe plant either over the wharf on the terials onto another stationary conveyorof the same capacity, distributing the pitsto the storage hoppers above the carbon-izing units, or to the portable conveyorsystem which enabled the operators tostore the materials on any desired sec-tion of the property. The former routewas the usual practice at the plant, thestorage piles being utilized merely asreserve. When it was necessarv to with- Q D AlTSIDt Hr-^JCr^^ .iSJ^SrZ.CL,^ C/V5^5-CU.a / Ilj Or MAnurACTURE-

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