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Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ely 10 tonsa day or 3,650 tons a year. No serious Gas Engineering Department was forcibly brought to the fact that some disposal must be made of the lampblack. Experiments had been made to see if it was possible to use it for printers ink, but it was found to have just enough foreign substance in it to make the ink a gray- fsh color, so it could not be used for that purpose. At that time Portland and Los Angeleshad perfected the briquetting of lamp-black and had placed it on the market indirect competition to coal, and were un-able to supph the demand. An analysisof the briquettes was made by the Uni-versity of California Chemistry Depart-ment, with the following result: Moisture, 3.04 per cent; volatile mat-ter, 27.32 per cent; fixed carbon, 69.06per cent; ash, .58 per cent; heat valuein B. T. Ls per pound, 15,105.50. This shows that the fuelwhich is being delivered at aprice cheaper than coal hasapproximately 1000 more B. T.V. to the pound than the bestanlhracile coal. This, coupled
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