COAL-TAK AND WATEK-GAS TAR CREOSOTES. 



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is less difference in the results from using different types of retort 

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 the same type. In other words, if the coal and the temperature of 

 coking are the same, the type of retort or oven seems to have little 

 or no effect. This seems to indicate that the producing of highly 

 aromatic coal-tar creosotes is dependent upon the temperature of 

 coking. If this is true, then the method of applying the heat to the 

 retort may have some effect upon the quality of the coal-tar creosote. 

 According to some researches at the University of Wisconsin {llf) 

 on producer gas, tar is formed from coals at comparatively low 

 temperatures, ranging from 200° to 600° C. This is far below the 



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temperature of coking in both the by-product and gas-house retorts. 

 Table 8 shows that the temperature of coking in the by-product oven 

 rarely goes below 900° C. and that the average is about 1,000° C. If 

 tars are produced at temperatures as low as 200° C. and are com- 

 pletely given off from the coal at 600° C, and if the retort is heated to 

 a point as high as 1,000° C, the tar vapor, as it rises from the coal, 

 must come into contact to a certain extent with a surface heated far 

 above its temperature of formation, when it may, and probably does, 

 undergo a chemical change. It is well known that paraffin-like oils 

 may be obtained if coal is coked at low temperatures. It is also 

 significant to note that in this work the tars produced at the highest 

 temperatures yielded either no coal-tar creosotes at all or else one of 



