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

John F Carll on the Bradford producing sand	25

Torpedoes Their invention 1862 usefulness and method of employ	27

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

75	32

CHAPTER II	36

Dr T Sterry Hunts report on the Corniferous Limestone Discrepancy	50

Its appearance when refined melting point Superiority over paraffine	55

Ramdohrs charcoal pulverizing drum illustrated and described Lubri	297

General conclusions arrived at	304

Grading of oil by the West Virginia Transportation Company	310

Spindle oils Division of the distillates of residuum	316

Table of the specific gravities and flashing points of the products of dis	323

98	324

66	330

CHAPTER X	343

Apparatus worked by hand for mixing crude photogen illustrated	63

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

27	109

CHAPTER V	125

History of Pithole City	144

28	150

21	151

Edward Stack on the output of the naphtha springs at Baku 1881	152

Table showing the yearly and the total production of the several oil dis	155

732	160

06	161

Table of the average daily runs in the petroleum regions for 18821886	162

92	168

Mixing contrivances worked by a machine illustrated and described	182

Description of the oil region	196

Natural gas wells in the United States	209

35	212

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

Largest oil refineries in the United States	243

Receiving crude oil Pipes and tanks in use	246

Vacuum stills	252

Distillation of petroleum	261

Chemical treatment	267

Settling tanks	273

Deodorization of benzene	279

Commercial manufacture of paraffine established by Seligue of France	285

Thallene and petrolucene obtained by Professor Morton of the Stevens	291

The Parrish Naphthometer illustrated and described	354

58	359

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

Petroleum in Ecuador	378

Vaseline substitute for olive oil in French cooking	381

CHAPTER XII	387

Methods of using petroleum for illumination as a torch	391

Consideration of the effect on the supply and cost of petroleum if adopted	411

Russian petroleum locomotives Mr Urquharts letter on his experience	419

Mr Urquharts résumé of the comparative cost of several different kinds	425

Petroleum motors J Spiels patented petroleum motor illustrated	432

Loading the tank cars	438

Course of the New York Pipelines	446

Pittsburgh Pipelines	452

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

Opinion of the geologists of the Pennsylvania survey on the confines	465

Great advantages offered by Pittsburgh for location of manufacturing	477

Testing the viscosity by means of the inclined plane W H Baileys	481

467	482

99	483

162	484

Analysis of gas from petroleum Olefiant	485

472	489

Petroleum in Alsace	491

Prof Thurstons opinion of Baileys apparatus	493

Prof Sadtlers subsequent résumé of his own and other observations	500

Boverton Redwoods report on the respective merits of Russian	502

367	507

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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	Harvard University
Digitized	5 Jun 2008
Length	508 pages

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