Claim by South Manchuria Railway Company Tokyo, Oct. 31.
Scientists of the Imperial Japan-jose Navy, who have been working jin ce-operation with the coal mining interests of the South Manchuria i Railway Company, claim to have perfected a method for the extract ion of fuel oil from coal which is commercially practical, One ton of heavy oil has been extracted from two tons of soft coal from the Fu-Ishun open cut mines in Manchuria, it is asserted. The process is. low temperature carbonisation and the result of four years of experiment.
An official announcement by the railway company says that most of the credit belongs to the Naval Fuel Works at Tokuyama. Both the railway and naval experts expect the perfection of the process to revolutionise the fuel situation in this country, for Fushun oil is exceedingly cheap to mine, since the open ject method is used, and the car-Jbonisation process is inexpensive, Products so far are of fairly good Jquality and can be improved as time Kees on. Moreover, cracking into fkasoline at the same plant would be possible.
"Low, temperature carbon tion lot coal," declares a statement been tried on an industrial scale in many countries but none 80 far had netable success. Japan been the first to succeed completely. have the assurance that liquefied coal will be a paying proposition industrially. The naval experts deserve great admiration. Their dis-i ing about a revolution in fuel circles.
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