A Practical Treatise on Petroleum: Comprising Its Origin, Geology, Geographical Distribution, History, Chemistry, Mining, Technology, Uses and Transportation. Together with a Description of Gas Wells, the Application of Gas as Fuel, Etc

Baird, 1887 - Natural gas - 508 pages

CHAPTER I	17

General consent to the opinion that petroleum is the product of a slow	25

Apparatus worked by hand for mixing crude photogen illustrated	27

Examination of the sand strata as original places of deposit for the dis	28

CHAPTER II	36

Inability to define the area of these oilproducing sands Facts known	45

Northern oil field Black sand Description of the sands	47

CHAPTER III	55

Torpedoes Their invention 1862 usefulness and method of employ	267

Settling tanks	273

Deodorization of benzene	279

Commercial manufacture of paraffine established by Seligue of France	285

Torpedo in position illustrated and described	287

Dangers from spontaneous combustion	306

Petroleum in Alsace	307

Mixed lubricating compounds	319

Petroleum in Ecuador Report of Raymond de Peiger engineer	73

CHAPTER IV	77

18	78

19	84

RUSSIAN PETROLEUM	85

Use of petroleum as liquid fuel Major Marshs statement of the state	91

Naphtha well at Balakhani Naphtha yield of the great well Thorn	95

20	99

Distribution over the world Its crust as found in the Island of Trinidad	100

Excessive supply rendering the oil almost without price Capping of	107

27	109

Annual output of lubricating oils by Nobel Bros Russian liquid fuel	113

CHAPTER V	125

Researches of the late Hon George Knox on the existence of bitumen	132

History of Pithole City	144

28	150

21	151

Oil from sandstone above Venango group	152

56	160

89	162

Stock held by the pipe lines December 31 1884	164

Irons belonging to a carpenters	176

Table of the wells completed from 1876 to 1884 both inclusive and	190

Description of the oil region	196

Table showing the properties of the chief gaseous elements of natural	215

Results of a number of average tests to discover the most efficient	221

Gas companies chartered in Pennsylvania up to February 5 1885 Great	227

Natural gas industry at Pittsburgh	233

Early date of the distillation of mineral oil for illuminating purposes 1694	239

Receiving crude oil Pipes and tanks in use	246

Vacuum stills	252

Distillation of petroleum	261

Chemical purification of the distillate	327

Mixing contrivances worked by a machine illustrated and described	328

Manufacture of lubricating oil from Baku naphtha	334

Chemical purification of the lubricating	341

Tagliabues open tester illustrated and described	348

The Parrish Naphthometer illustrated and described	354

Viscosity	361

Flowing well on the McElhenny or Funk farm Well on the Tarr farm	364

The composition of oils and their freedom from admixture with other oils	369

The degree of cold to which oil may be exposed without the deposition	375

Analysis of cosmoline by J Moss Vaseline value for pharmaceutical	381

CHAPTER XII	387

Methods of using petroleum for illumination as a torch oil	391

Hitchcock tablelamp illustrated and described	397

Report of three National Commissions on the use of petroleum as a fuel	403

Percentage composition of bituminous and of anthracite coal and	409

Petroleum refuseComparative trials with petroleum anthracite bitumi	428

Brayton hydrocarbon engine	434

CHAPTER VIII	435

Other pipeline corporations Use of certificates or acceptances	440

Course of the New York Pipelines	446

Pittsburgh Pipelines	452

Distillation of the schists in France by Seligue Improvements by James	461

THE GEOLOGY OF NATURAL GAS BRIEFLY STATED BY CHARLES	467

Professor Alexander Winchells synopsis of the shales furnishing the	478

91	482

Isolations made by C M Warren	484

472	489

NATURAL GAS ITS ORIGIN NATURAL GAS WELLS CHEMICAL ANALYSIS	494

Testing the viscosity by means of the inclined plane W H Baileys	502

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Title	A Practical Treatise on Petroleum: Comprising Its Origin, Geology, Geographical Distribution, History, Chemistry, Mining, Technology, Uses and Transportation. Together with a Description of Gas Wells, the Application of Gas as Fuel, Etc
Authors	Benjamin Johnson Crew, Charles Albert Ashburner
Publisher	Baird, 1887
Original from	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Digitized	15 Sep 2016
Length	508 pages

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