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OPERATIONS OF FUEL-TESTING PLANT IN 1905. 
W VI.VSI'.S. 
Coal 
Moisture 
Volatile ma1 ter. 
Fixed carbon... 
Ash 
Sulphur 
Tesl 46, 
Test 47. 
10.02 
10. 49 
35. 49 
35.90 
41 98 
43. 25 
12. 51 
10. 30 
100.00 
KM). 00 
6. 04 
1. 1 1 
Gas by volume. 
Carbon dioxide (CO2) . . 
Carbon monoxide (< ( » I 
Hydrogen (H2) 
Methane (CH<) 
Nitrogen (N2) 
Tesl 46. 
12.0 
15.2 
11.8 
3.0 
58.0 
1(H). 
Tesl 47 
10.1 
IX. N 
11. 5 
2.9 
56. 7 
100.0 
COKING TEST. 
Tesl 8, Indiana No. 5. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, finely crushed. Raw. Dural ion of tesl , 49 hours. 
Coal charged pounds.. 10,000 
(ok,, produced <1<> — 5,34| 
Breeze produced do — 231 
Coke produced per cent . . . r >3. 40 
Breeze produced d<> — 2. 32 
Total percentage yield 
Remarks. — Light-gray and silvery color. Good, si rong coke. 1 1 igh ash and sulpher. 
ANALYSES. 
Tesl 8. 
Coal. 
Coke. 
Moisture 
10.74 
36. 71 
41.95 
10.00 
4.61 
0. 76 
Volatile matter 
.54 
SI. 29 
Ash 
17.41 
Sulphur 
4.21 
INDIANA NO. (>. 
Bituminous coal from mine No 34, Consolidated Indiana Coal Company, Ilvmera, 
Sullivan County, Ind., on the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad. 
This sample consisted of run-of-mine coal and was loaded under the supervision of 
Inspector J. S. Burrows. It was used in making washing lest No. 113, coke test No. 12, 
steaming test No. 157, steaming test on washed coal No. 159, and producer-gas test No. 49. 
Two mine samples were selected from widely separated points in this mine. No. 1772 
came from room 2, off the second east entry on the south side, 300 feet southeast of the 
shaft; No. 1776 from the main north entry, 425 feet north of the shaft. 
