. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ntimated, a quantityof slacked lime formed at the bottomof the generator. In railway economicsthis by-product can be used for white-washing the walls of roundhouses andshops, so that there is absolutely norefuse to get rid of. When the gas is clean and dry, so tospeak, a three-stage compresser makesit take up less room but brings its pres-sure up to about 150 lbs. to the The gas in this state is ready foruse as an illuminant. It is not only in-llammable, but under pressure is a p
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ntimated, a quantityof slacked lime formed at the bottomof the generator. In railway economicsthis by-product can be used for white-washing the walls of roundhouses andshops, so that there is absolutely norefuse to get rid of. When the gas is clean and dry, so tospeak, a three-stage compresser makesit take up less room but brings its pres-sure up to about 150 lbs. to the The gas in this state is ready foruse as an illuminant. It is not only in-llammable, but under pressure is a pow-erful explosive, and it is at this pointthat the Safety Storage System used bytlie Commercial Acetylene Company ofNew York, comes in and renders thisgas as just described perfectly safe andvery economical. The compressed gasis forced into long cylindrical storagetanks, which have previously been pack-ed full of asbestos. If you could see theinside of one of these tanks you wouldthink nothing else could get it, but theasbestos has 80 per cent, porosity, and,moreover, it has been saturated with a. WRECKFUL CLOUD THEBROW OF WAR. liquid called acetone. Those two sub-stances would seem to take up all theavailable space, but the acetylene can stillgo in and pack itself away so completelythat sardines in a box have waltzingroom by comparison. The liquid acetone is made by the de-structive distillation of woody fiber andis first cousin to wood alcohol. Thisliquid has the peculiar property of beingable to dissolve about 23 times its ownvoJume of acetylene at a temperature of62 degrees F. The porus asbestos issimply used to fully distribute the liquidacetone all through the storage the acetylene gas, at 150 lbs. pres-sure, has all been dissolved, the result-ing liquid is non-explosive. Thus thedouble function of taking up an inflam-mable gas under heavy pressure and ren-dering it perfectly safe to carry abouthas been accomplished by the presence inthe tank of t
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