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OPERATIONS OF FUEL-TESTING PLANT IN L905. 
PRODUCER-GAS TEST: 
Test *.">. Kansas No. .">. 
Size as shipped, over | inch. Dura tion of test, 30 hours. 
Average elecl rical horsepower 208.1 
A\ erage B. T. CJ. gas, per cubic fool L28J 
Total coal fired, pounds - 8,6a 
COAL CONSUMED IN PRODUCER (POUNDS PER tSEPOWER PER HOUR). 
Per. electrical horsepower: 
Available for outside purposes 
Developed al switch board 
Per brake horsepower: 
Available for outside purposes 
Developed a1 engine 
Equivalt nt used by product r plant 
Per clcci rical horsepower: 
Available for outside purposes 
Developed at switch board 
Per brake horsepower: 
Available for (Hit side purposes 
Developed at engine 
Tesl 25. 
Coalas ,,,.....,,.., Comb 
fired. urycoai. ||lil( 
L.46 
1.39 
1 . 2 I 
I. 18 
L.40 
1.33 
I. to 
1 . 33 
1 . 58 
1.50 
1.34 
t.27 
1.25 
I. 19 
1.06 
.1.01 
1.41 
1.34 
1 . 20 
1.14 
ANALYSES 
Coal 
Moisture 
Volatile matter 
Fixed carbon 
Ash 
Sulphur 
4.23 
31. 19 
54.09 
10. 19 
100.00 
3.18 
Qai by < olumt 
(arbou dioxide (COs) 
(arbon monoa ide (CO 
Hydrogen (Hj) 
Methane (CII,) 
Nitrogen (N2) 
Oxygen (0 2 ) 
Tesl 
10.8 
3.1 
til. 2 
.3 
100.0 
K l.\ II ( KV NO. I 
Bituminous coal from mine \<>. *_!, Straight (rock Coal and Coke Company, Straight 
Crock. Bell County, Ivy., on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. 
Two samples of coal were shipped from this mine under the supervision of Inspects 
J. W. Groves, as follows: Kentucky No. 1 B consisted of half 3-inch and 1-inch coal and 
half three-fourths inch coal, and was used in making producer-gas tesl No. 79 and coking 
tesl No. 76. Kentucky No. 1 C consisted of IJ-inch slack coal, and the tests made on this 
sample were as follows; Coking tesl No. 71 and steaming tests Nos. 255, 263, and 265. 
Two mine samples were taken from this mine for chemical analysis. No. 2350 was taken 
in room 99 off the main entry, 3,000 feet northeast of the drift mouth, and No. 2351 was 
taken in room is,, IF the fourth north butl entry. 3,600 feel from the drift mouth. 
" For tests made during 1904 see Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 261, 1905, pp. 81, 126, 159. 
