192 OPERATIONS OF FUEL-TESTING PLANT IN 1905. 
PRODUCER-GAS TEST. 
Test 78, Virginia No. 2. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, over 1 inch, 74 per cent; \ inch to 1 inch 11 percent; \ inch 
to \ inch, 6 per cent; under.i inch, 9 per cent. Duration of test, 50 hours. 
A.verage electrical horsepower 197.5 
Average B. T. U. gas, per cubic foot 109. 
Total coal fired, pounds 12,950 
COAL CONSUMED IN PRODUCER (POUNDS PER HORSEPOWER PER HOUR). 
Per electrical horsepower: 
Available for outside purposes 
Developed at switch hoard 
Per brake horsepower: 
A vailahle for outside purposes 
Developed at engine 
Equivalent used by producer plant. 
Per elect rical horsepower: 
Available tor outside purposes 
Developed al switch hoard 
Per brake horsepower: 
Available for outside purposes 
Developed at engine 
Test 78. 
Coal as r> rvpOM i Coin- 
fired. i:,r ycoaJ. bustible _ 
1.39 
1.31 
1.18 
1.11 
1.47 
1.38 
1.25 
1.17 
1.36 
1.28 
1.15 
1.09 
1.43 
1.35 
1.22 
1.15 
1.28 
1.20 
1.09 
1.02 
1.35 
1.27 
1.14 
1.08 
ANALYSES. 
Test 78. 
Test 78. 
Coal. 
Moisture 
2.31, 
36.40 
55.44 
5.80 
100.00 
.67 
Gas by volume. 
8.2 
Volatile matter 
22.3 
Fixed carbon 
13.0 
Ash 
Methane (CH*) . . . 
3. 5 
53. 
Sulphur 
100. 
WASHING TEST. 
Test 134, Virginia No. 2. 
Size as shipped, run of mine. Size as used, crushed to 2 inches, .lig used, Stewart modified. 
Raw coal pounds. . 28,000 
Washed coal do 24,550 
Refuse do 3, 450 
