For making briquettes the small coal, if previously washed, is dried to reduce the moisture to at most 4%, and if necessary crushed in a disintegrator.
Some varieties of lignite, when crushed and pressed at a steam heat, soften sufficiently to furnish compact briquettes without requiring any cementing material.
Briquettes of this kind are made to a large extent from the tertiary lignites in the vicinity of Cologne; they are used mainly for house fuel on the lower Rhine and in Holland, and occasionally come to London.
The charging of briquettes was begun with a percentage of 25 per cent.
At the end of this process the briquettes were so hard that they would not break or crumble in loading on the cars or in transportation by rail, while they were so porous as to be capable of absorbing 26 per cent.
Three sets ofbriquettes were made, having a minimum section of one square inch.
Deval, who has shown that briquettes of 3 of sand and 1 of cement kept in water for two days at 80 Deg.
From every fifth bin, special neat and mortar briquettes are made, which are intended for tests at ages up to ten years.
Tests of coal and briquettes as fuel for house-heating boilers; No.
These tests have shown that, with the same fuel consumption of briquettes as of raw coal, the same locomotive can very materially increase its hauling capacity and thus reduce the cost of transportation.
After weighing, the materials to be tested are run through the necessary grinding and pulverizing machines and are fed into the briquetting machines, whence the manufactured briquettes are delivered for loading or storage.
The briquettes have a cross-section similar to an ellipse with the ends slightly cut off; they are about 1ΒΌ in.
The briquettes made at this plant are then subjected to physical tests in order to determine their weathering qualities and their resistance to abrasion; extraction tests and chemical analyses are also made.
Meanwhile other briquettes from the same lots are subjected to combustion tests for comparison with the same coal not briquetted.
The fuel used throughout the trip was briquettes made of the best Welsh anthracite worked up with a little tar.
The briquettes were broken up to convenient sizes before being put in the bunkers.
The cyanide is not acted on by carbonic oxide, but carbonic acid destroys it at high temperatures, so that it is not possible to produce it by heating the briquettes directly in a flame free from oxygen, but containing carbonic acid.
With regard to coal, two tons of briquettes remained, which, augmented by good stock of seal-blubber, would provide sufficient fuel.
At Cardiff the coal strike caused delay, but eventually some five hundred tons of the Crown Fuel Company's briquettes were got on board, and a final leave taken of English shores on August 4.
Our coal heap, which we had hitherto regarded as perfectly safe from the sea, was submerged, as shown by the kelp and sand lying on top of it, and the fact that seven or eight briquettes were found fifteen feet away from the heap.
Close unearthed coal briquettes from the heap outside, shovelled tons of snow from the veranda and made himself useful and amiable to every one.
Before the Ship left us, the remaining coal briquettes had been dug out of a bed of ice and carefully piled on a high point of the rocks.
When this was completed, the great rocks went in at one end of the works and a stream of briquettes poured out of the other end, being made by each briquetting machine at the rate of sixty per minute.
Furnace trials of his briquettes proved that they were even better than had been anticipated.
Briquettes are a new form of fuel made from coal, principally for household use.
Owing to the relative cheapness of fuel, briquettes have been used but very little in the United States.
In the Northwest briquettes made of West Virginia semi-bituminous coal sell at the same price as run-of-mine coal of the same quality.
The heat value of briquettes will depend on the kind and quality of material that enters into their composition.
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