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Vol. 1, No. 2 PITTSBURG, FEBRUARY, 1905 #1.00 Per Year
BRIQUETTES
INTERESTING EXPERIMENT
Made by Robert Devillers and Frederick
Wood Meeker.
Mr. Robert Devillers, of Noel Sart Culpart,
Belgium, and New York, has favored
"Coal and Timber" with the results of an
experiment with briquettes and some statistics
of the manufacture, sale and exportation
of this fuel in Belgium, France and
Germany.
Mr. Devillers has been engaged in the
manufacture of briquettes since his boyhood
days ?nd we believe is the inventor of
from Anthracite and Bituminous coal dust
with an American machine. As you will
notice from this report, Anthracite coal dust
can be made into good burning briquettes
with the proper machine and binder at a
cost which will secure a market for it and
leave a reasonable profit to the manufacturer
showing many advantages to the consumers
as to price compared with Anthracite coal,
being free from clinkers and slate as shown
from the burned briquettes and also much
cleaner to handle.
The stove used for the experiment was
an ordinary "drum stove" under "forced
draft."
Experiment made December 8th, 1904, by
Robert Devillers and Frederick Wood
Meeker with a coal briquette made with
stopped giving flame as soon as taken out
of the fire.
Water stopped boiling, European made,
at 1:16 o'clock; American made, at 1:21
o'clock.
European made briquette, no shaking of
grate needed. American made briquette,
from 12:35 to 1:20 o'clock; grate had to
be shaken 11 times to keep up the fire.
Evaporated Water. European American
Made. Made.
Water put on the fire 13% fits. 13!-M ttis.
Water left in boiler 4)4 " 8
Water evaporated—European made, 9fbs.
in 2 hours, 34 minutes; American made,
Sj/jlbs. in 2 hours, 39 minutes.
Ash—19i/jit>s. of briquettes burned in 2
hours, 50 minutes, European made, left
2, I /fbs. ash ; American made, left Sj^ibs. asn -
SECTIONAL VIEW OF BRIQUETTING PLANT AT NOEL SART CULPART, BELGIUM.
Briquette Machines in use in many plants
in Belgium and the northern part of France.
He says:
"For about twenty years experiments
have been made in this country to utilize
coal dust in shape of briquette but without
any success commercially. To ascertain
if the failure of success to make good burning
coal briquettes from coal dust or -.vaste
coal did not arise from the coal itself and
not from the machine, I had sent to my
plant in Belgium five barrels of pure Anthracite
coal dust to be made into briquettes
which ha\e been sent back to me in satisfactory
condition, equal in burning qualities
to Anthracite coal. With this coal briquette
I have made an experiment which is compared
with American coal briquette made
European machine and pure American Anthracite
coal dust, compared with American
machine briquette, made with Anthracite
and Bituminous coal dust:
Weight of coal briquette put in the fire,
19 r 4 lbs. Weight of water put on the
fire, 13vS lbs. Fire started at 10:40 o'clock.
Water put on the fire at 10:42 o'clock.
European American
Made. Made.
Stove bottom got red hot at 10:50 10:55
Stove top got red hot at 10:58 11:04
Stove pipe got red hot at 11:02 kept black
Water boiled at 11:05 11:12%
At 11:17 o'clock took out of the fire one
red hot European made briquette and one
red hot American made briquette. European
made briquette kept the flame for 4 minutes-
American made briquette got black and
Flame—European made briquettes kept
bright and long to the end; American made
briquettes, very small flame, bright at the
beginning and got dark rapidly.
Bottom oi the stove—European. Kept
very bright to the end; American, kept
very dark.
Clinkers and slate—European made
briquette,
none; American made briquette,
none; but briquette crumbling at the end
of tiie lire.
Report on the Production of Briquettes in
Belgium in 1902.
There were in Belgium in 1902 34 factories
making briquettes; 29 were located in
the Province of Hainaut, having 65 presses
and employing about 1,300 working men