TESTS PENNSYLVANI A. 
169 
PENNSYLVANIA NO. 5. 
Bituminous coal from Nos. 1 and 2 mines, James W. Ellsworth & Co., Ellsworth, 
Washington County, Pa., on the Pennsylvania Railroad. 
This sample consisted of "three-fourths inch coal" over a three-fourths inch bar screen. 
It was loaded under the supervision of Inspector W. J. Von Borries, and was used in making 
washing test No. 120, coking tests Nos. 25 and 26, steaming test No. 2SG, steaming tests 
on washed coal Nos. 194 and 195, and producer-gas test No. 59. 
Two mine samples were taken for chemical analysis— No. 19G0 from room 10 off the 
first butt entry, 3,000 feet southeast of the shaft in mine No. 2, and No. 1967 from room 
17 off the fifth butt north entry, 3,000 feet north of the shaft in mine No. 1. 
CHEMICAL ANALYSES. 
Laboratory number 
Air-drying loss 
Moisture 
Volatile, matter. 
Fixed carbon. .. 
lAsh 
ISulphur 
Hydrogen. 
Carbon 
Nitrogen 
Oxygen 
Calorific value determined: 
Calories 
British thermal units. 
Mine samples. 
I960 
1.50 
3.01 
33. 46 
58. 70 
4.83 
.73 
7,887 
14,197 
191 57 
1.50 
2.91 
33.70 
57. 99 
5.40 
1.08 
Car 
sample. 
2008 
1 . 00 
2. 40 
34.48 
57. 01 
6. 05 
.88 
5.26 
77.99 
1.53 
8.29 
7,785 
14,013 
STEAMING TESTS. 
Test 280, Pennsylvania No. 5. 
Size as shipped, over \ inch. Size as used, over 
|inch, 55.3 per cent; \ men to 1 inch, 14.5 per cent; 
\ inch to h inch, 9.8 per cent; \ inch, 20.4 per cent. 
Duration of test, 10 hours. Kind of grate, rock- 
ng- 
Test 194, Pennsylvania No. 5, washed. 
Size as shipped, over I inch. Size as used, over 
inch, 53.4 per cent; \ inch to 1 inch, 22.2 per cent ; 
\ inch to h inch, 11.8 per cent; under ] inch, 12.6. 
per cent. Duration of test. 10 hours. Kind of 
grate, rocking. 
Test 195, Pennsylvania No. 5, washed. 
Size as shipped, over \ inch. Size as used, over 
1 inch, 55.2 percent; h inch to 1 inch, 18.7 percent; 
i inch to h inch, 11.8 per cent; under \ inch, 14.3 
per cent. Duration of test, 10.02 hours. Kind of 
grate, rocking. 
M IS( ' ELLA N E( >l\S ITEMS. 
[eating value of coal B. T. U. per pound dry coal.. 
force of draft: 
Under stack damper inch water.. 
Above fire do 
jurnace temperatu re ° F . . 
Jry coal used per square foot of grate surface per hour pounds. . 
juivalent water evaporated per square foot of water-heating surface 
per hour pounds. . 
;rcentage of rated horsepower of boiler developed 
ater apparently evaporated per pound of coal as fired pounds.. 
Test 286. 
Test 194. 
14,029 
14,526 
0.36 
(1.51 
.12 
.14 
2,628 
2,478 
18.43 
20.52 
3.42 
3.53 
95.9 
98.8 
8.29 
7.93 
Test 195. 
0.47 
.16 
2,532 
19.97 
3. 46 
<:6.9 
7.97 
