Author: Alfred HausdingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fuel
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A Handbook on the Winning and the Utilization of Peat
Author: Alfred HausdingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fuel
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A Handbook on the Winning and the Utilization of Peat. Translated from the 3D German Ed. by Hugh Ryan
Author: Alfred HausdingPublisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781376678567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
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Peat
Author: Philip R. BjörlingPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656770670
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Excerpt from Peat: Its Use and Manufacture A bibliography has been appended, giving a list of the various original sources of information consulted, and also a list of patents relating to peat since the year 1899. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Winning, Preparation, and Use of Peat in Ireland
Author: Great Britain Fuel Research BoardPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666867896
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Excerpt from The Winning, Preparation, and Use of Peat in Ireland: Reports and Other Documents Athy by Reece, about the middle of last century. An account of the latter Operation is given in a Parliamentary Report on the' Destructive Distillation of Peat, which was submitted to Parliament in 1851 by Sir Robert Kane. At Derrylea, near Portarlington, in 1866 several thousand tons of press peat were manufactured by Hodgson, but his process, like similar Continental ones, was not successful. The oldest known method for converting wet peat by pressure into fuel was that employed in 1844 by C. W. Williams, at Cappoge. In the Bog of Allen, and one of the oldest of the dry press processes, that of Gwynne, was tested on a small scale in 1855 at Kilberry. The manufacture of sieve peat was carried on near the town of Sligo in 1863. Ten years ago attempts were made at Kilberry to facilitate the dehydration of peat by acting on the latter with an alternating electric current. All these processes, aswell as those for the manufacture of paper from peat and the production of ammonia by means of peat, which were worked at Celbridge, Co. Dublin, and Carnlough, Co. Antrim, respectively, were abandoned after short periods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Peat and Its Uses, as Fertilizer and Fuel (Classic Reprint)
Author: Samuel W. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330889626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Excerpt from Peat and Its Uses, as Fertilizer and Fuel In the years 1857 and 1858, the writer, in the capacity of Chemist to the State Agricultural Society of Connecticut, was commissioned to make investigations into the agricultural uses of the deposits of peat or swamp muck which are abundant in this State; and. in 1858, he submitted a Report to Henry A. Dyer, Esq., Corresponding Secretary of the Society, embodying his conclusions. In the present work the valuable portions of that Report have been recast, and, with addition of much new matter, form Parts I. and II. The remainder of the book, relating to the preparation and employment of peat for fuel, &c., is now for the first time published, and is intended to give a faithful account of the results of the experience that has been acquired in Europe, during the last twenty-five years, in regard to the important subject of which it treats. The employment of peat as an amendment and absorbent for agricultural purposes has proved to be of great advantage in New-England fanning. It is not to be doubted, that, as fuel, it will be even more valuable than as a fertilizer. Our peat-beds, while they do not occupy so much territory as to be an impediment and a reproach to our country, as they have been to Ireland, are yet so abundant and so widely distributed - occurring from the Atlantic to the Missouri, along and above the 40th parallel, and appearing on our Eastern Coast at least as far South as North Carolina - as to present, at numberless points, material, which, sooner or later, will serve us most usefully when other fuel has become scarce and costly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Commercial Peat
Author: Frederick T. GissingPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656892273
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Excerpt from Commercial Peat: Its Uses and Possibilities This present volume is designed as a companion to that above mentioned, and presents this important industrial question from a commercial point of view. TO appreciate the seriousness of the problem of utilising the bog-lands, it is only necessary to realise the great surface covered by peat bogs on the Continent of Europe alone. This amounts to square miles. The survey of Ire land gives acres of peat bogs. In Canada more than acres of land are known to be peat bog, and in the United States acres. In Newfoundland two-thirds Of the surface Of the country is said to consist of peat bogs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Peat and Its Products
Author: W. A. KerrPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266232445
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Excerpt from Peat and Its Products: An Illustrated Treatise on Peat and Its Products as a National Source of Wealth Second only to its varied applications as a heat producer is the use of Peat as a fertilizer. Apart from the well established value of its ashes and mull, its antiseptic, deodorant qualities and powers of absorption and retention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Report of the Fuel Research Board for the Years 1922, 1923
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331917977
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Excerpt from Report of the Fuel Research Board for the Years 1922, 1923: First Section: The Production of Air-Dried Peat Report of the Fuel Research Board for the Years 1922, 1923: First Section: The Production of Air-Dried Peat was written by an unknown author in 1923. This is a 183 page book, containing 52514 words and 74 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Peat as a Manure Substitute (Classic Reprint)
Author: John S. BurdPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334556500
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Excerpt from Peat as a Manure Substitute The other English experiments which are referred to above, however, have given little or no support to the claims made by Bottomley. Chittenden and Russell, in particular, have gone on record as saying that, in their experiments, the plants grown on soils treated with the bacterized peat do not seem to have been affected beneficially any more than plants grown on similar soils not treated with that substance. In view of the fact that such careful experimenters, prob ably among the most conservative in the field of agricultural science, have made these statements renders it necessary for any one commenting on the subject in question to decide that the public will be unjustly and unscientifically advised if it is not warned that many more experiinents by careful students of the sub ject are necessary before the exact facts in the case can be ascertained. In view, therefore, of this situation, coupled with the traditional information which we have always had relative to the inert nature of peat and its ineffectiveness when applied to soils, make it necessary for me to advise against the acceptance by the public of any statements made on the superior nature of inoculated as against uninoculated peat, as well as on its value as a source. Of nitrogen and even of organic matter to soils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Peat
Author: Charles A. DavisPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334402432
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Excerpt from Peat: Essays on Its Origin, Uses and Distribution in Michigan When allowed to remain exposed to the air, in the presence of mois ture, it is well known that most forms of vegetable matter rot, and finally disappear entirely, and such decay has been described as a form of oxidation,1 similar to, if not identical with, that which occurs when the same sort of material is burned; that is, as a purely chemical process. This process is not, however, directly due to the action of the air, or any of it gaseous constituents, or to moisture. Perfectly dry vegetable matter will keep indefinitely in the air, as is Shown by in numerable articles in common use. In like manner, we find that wood and similar material of vegetable origin will keep for very long periods of time when entirely submerged in water. The decay of vegetable mat ter is really a series of complicated changes, due to the growth and development of living organisms in the decaying matter. These use part of the material of which the vegetable tissue is composed for their own nourishment and growth, and thus break it down into simpler com pound. The organisms which thus produce decay are mainly plants of Simple structure. And often of microscopic size, and when they are not so small, their lack of color, and their intimate association with the tissue in which they grow, render them very inconspicuous. These plants are bacteria and fungi, and are aided in bringing about de composition by many types of animals. Like all other plants, these decay-producing forms need both air and moisture in order to grow, and, moreover, the moisture must be present in proper amount, too much water being as detrimental to their growth as too little, and where air is excluded they do not thrive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.