Petroleum: Its History, Origin, Occurrence, Production, Physical and Chemical Constitution, Technology, Examination and Uses; Together with the Occurrences and Uses of Natural Gas

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H.C. Baird & Company, 1894 - Gas industry - 715 pages

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Construction and brickingin of a castiron still
48
CHAPTER IV
49
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50
Sulphur Injurious effect of sulphur
55
12
56
13
64
Combinations rich in carbon
69
The derrick and its construction The engine and its connections
74
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75
Methane marsh gas or paraffin Saturated hydrocarbons Combinations
79
Analyses of natural gases from Murraysville Speechley and Fre
82
Technical questions with a veinlike occurrence of the oil Importance
89
Augells belt theory
93
The process of formation not idenucal with the processes of distillation
99
Regenerative furnaces with open hearths Platefurnace Smelting fur
100
Eruptions of gas without
106
Photometric determinations of oilgas Manufacture of oilgas on a large
113
Difference in opinions regarding the origin of petroleum Peculiar view
121
Reasons why petroleum is not a product of distillation of coal
135
Alexejews apparatus
147
From plants and animals Prof Lesleys view of the formation of Penn
151
Reasons advanced by several scientists that petroleum has been formed
154
Process of the formation of petroleum
158
Occurrence
160
Early methods of obtaining oil in Galicia the United States and Ger
166
Boring machinery of the Well Works Co of Aurora IL Average per
172
Set of irons belonging to a carpenters
178
Freefall drill Fabians freefall drill Kinds boring instrument
186
Faucks selfacting freefall jars
192
Isomerides isolated from American crude
199
Necessary tools and implements for handling the tubing and sucker
205
Mud volcanoes or salses Some peculiarities in the occurrence of petro
208
Description of the tank steamer Charlois
211
Warrens investigations of Pennsylvania crude oils
215
Statistics showing the progressive importations of Russian and American
217
Criteria for the determination of the value of a crude oil Fractional
241
Dolinins continuous still Lissentos method Utilization of residuum
252
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253
Distillation with the thermometerbulb in the gas space
254
Table for the reduction to the normal temperature of 59 F of
259
Receiving crude oil Pipes and tanks in use
265
Prof Benjamin Sillimans experiments Isaiah Warrens still Construc
271
Wagon still
278
Impracticability of the use of air for condensing Original form of con
284
Open method of distributing tanks
291
Flashing point of the distillates Manufacture of light products
296
Heckmanns naphtha still
302
System with separate vessels for acidification and alkalization
316
Properties of paraffine Commercial varieties of American paraffine
397
Semonian Cenomanian Gault Neocomian including Wealden
400
Fleischners densimeter Stellings densimeter Greiners densimeter
406
Importance of the flashing test Chandlers experiments Apparatuses
419
Apparatuses with closed oil holders Tagliabues closed tester
426
Abels apparatus as introduced in England Parrish naphthometer
432
Englers apparatus improved by K Neumann
439
Victor Meyers method of determining the flashing temperature
440
Variation in the flashing point of one and the same petroleum Flashing
447
Purification of crude paraffine
449
Table showing the influence of the size of the igniting flame as well
454
Other means for determining the rapidity of rising in the wick or
460
Lamanskys viscosimeter
466
Lepenaus leptoшeter
472
Stahls apparatus Simpler tests employed by manufacturers Tests as
476
Professor E Willigks oiltesting machine
497
Cheap gasapparatuses Gasapparatuses with horizontal retorts
502
Content of paraffin in various oils Constitution and properties
515
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530
Operation of testing the
535
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662
546
Detection of smaller quantities of fat oils Quantitative determination
547
Crude oil as a remedial agent Petroleum products
553
Gasoline and its use for the manufacture of illuminating and fuel gas
555
Use of petroleum and its products for driving motors Methods by which
561
Priestman petroteum motor
568
Lamps for heavy oils and residuum Arrangement for lighting the yard
585
E Grubes oleovapor lamp The sunlight lamp
591
Intschiks apparatus for the production of gas and tar containing
597
Audouins method of firing Aydon Wise and Fields nozzlesprinkler
609
Apparatuses for steamers Experiments by Mr Isherwood of the United
620
Lower Devonian Siuman Upper Silurian Lower Silurian
625
Caspian Sea steamers first fitted with Spakowskis sprinkler
626
Petroleum stoves and furnaces for domestic purposes Uses of lubricat
636
and More
637
Formation of hydrocarbons in the process of distillation
642
Englers investigations of German and Alsace lubricating oils with tables
643
Fossil paraffius Ethylene olefine type Actual ethylenes
645
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653
Saponification of petroleum products C Schaals method
654
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668
R Schwarzs furnace D H Knapps apparatus Pintschs gas producer
675
Content of crystallized and anhydrous salts in solutions of carbonate
681
Nobels system of continuous distillation
701
Thorns extractor
704
Table showing the progress of some distillations
711
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