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OPERATIONS OF FUEL-TESTING PLANT IN L905. 
INDIANA NO. 5. 
Bituminous coal from mine No. 33, Consolidated Indiana Coal Company, Hymera, Sul- 
livan County, Ind., o*n the Evansville and Terre Baute Railroad. 
This sample, which consisted of run-of-minc coal, was shipped under the supervision of 
Inspector J. S. Burrows and was used in making coking lesi No. 8, steaming tests Nos. 153, 
155, and 156, and producer-gas tests Nos. 46 and 47. 
Two mine samples were taken in the mine, one of whit h, No. 177 I, came from the second 
east entry on the north side of the mine, 1,200 feci from the shaft, and the other, No. 1773,] 
from room 16 off the second east entry, 1,600 feet sou. Invest of the shaft. 
CHEMICAL ANALYSES. 
Laboratory number per cent. 
Air-drying loss do. .. 
Moisture do.. 
Volatile matter do. 
Fixed carbon do. . 
| Ash do.. 
{sulphur do.. 
Hydrogen do.. 
Carbon do. 
Nitrogen do 
Oxygen do. . 
Calorific value determined: 
Calories 
British thermal units 
£ 
M ine samples. 
17?:-; 
■a in 
L2. It 
35. 1 7 
43. 73 
8.96 
3.54 
6,398 
11,516 
1774 
8.40 
12. 17 
35. 53 
43. 14 
0. L6 
4.66 
Car 
samph 
1859 
7. 20 
I 2. 03 
'A:,. 05 
41.44 
10.88 
4.27 
5. 50 
til). 73 
1.08 
17.54 
0,218 
1 1 , 192 
STEAMING TESTS. 
Test 153, Indiana No. 
Size as shipped, run of nunc. Size as used, over 
1 inch, 20.0 percent; I inch to 1 inch, 23.2 percent ; 
1 inch to I inch, 16.2 per cent: under \ inch, 31.6 
percent. Duration of lest , I0.02hours. Kind of 
grate, plain. 
Test 155, Indiana No. 5. 
Size as shipped, run of mine, 
inch, 27.7 percent; h inch to 1 
Size as used, over 
rich, 20.0 per cent; 
J inch to \ inch, 20.4 percent; under ', inch, 
per cent. Duration of test, 9.98 hours. Kim 
grate, plain. 
Test 156, Indiana No. 5. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, c 
I inch, 33.7 per cent; 1 inch to 3 inch, 23.2 perci 
', inch to \ inch, 15.4 per cent ; under | inch, 
per cent . Dura I ion of tesl , 9.92 hours. Kin: 
grate, plain. 
31.9 
1 of 
ver 
•nt; 
.'7.7 
I of 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
Heating value of coal 15. T. V . perpound dry coal. . 
Force of draft: 
Under stack damper inch water. . 
Above fire do 
Furnace temperature °F.. 
Dry coal used per square foot of grate surface per hour pounds. . 
Equivalent water evaporated per square foot of water-heating surface 
Per hour « .pounds 
Percentage of rated horsepower of boiler developed 
Water apparently evaporated per pound of coal as fired pounds . 
Water evaporated from and at 212° ]■".: 
Per pound of coal as fired ,1,, 
Perpound of dry coal ,| () 
Per pound of combustible do 
Test 153. 
Test 155. 
12,564 
12, 540 
0.51 
0. 50 
.22 
.18 
2, 391 
2,223 
19.21 
17.41 
3.16 
2. 90 
88.6 
81.3 
6. 26 
0.32 
7. 30 
7. 30 
8. 24 
8.35 
9.01 
9.91 
Test U 
12,730 
0.53 
.18 
2, 317 
10.14 
3. 10 
S7.0 
0.20 
7.23 
S.13 
9. 49 
