PLANNING AND LAYING OUT OF GASWORKS
33
£
per mouth-piece.
£ per ton. of coal
per max. day.
£
per therm produced per max.
day.
expenditure on water-gas plant. The cost per 1,000 cubic feet per maximum diem would be £131.
Based on thermal values the cost is £25 per therm produced per maximum day. At 6 per cent, interest. Capital charges would amount to 1|<Z. per therm on the annual production. It must be borne in. mind, however, that the land, fencing, ofilces, stores, and accessories are in excess of the coal gas production, and to this extent the Capital and interest may be reduced.
£25
CARBURETTED WATER-GAS PLANT
£ £ per therm produced per max. day.
Make per day 25 per cent, of total make — 500,000 cubic feet. Plant in two sections, each 250,000 to 275,000 cubic feet capacity
per diem. Complete with generators, carburettors, superheaters, serubbers, condensers, and operating floor; also blowers and engines for same, tar well, coke lift, pumps, etc. . 10,000 5-87
Boilers and seatings for above ...... 3,200 1-89
Exhausters (in duplicate), 25,000 cubic feet per hour, with engines . 1,250 0-74
Puriflers for oxide of iron only, 20 feet X 20 feet X 5 feet deep, complete with Connections and lifting gear .... 5,000 2-94
Building for water-gas apparatus, 65,000 cubic feet, at 1s. to 1s. Id. 3,500 2-08
Shed for purifiers, with preparing floor to cover 6,000 square feet, at 3s. (.id. ......... 1,120 0-66
Oil-storage tank. Forty-two days’ consumption at 1 gallon per 1,000 cubic feet of gas made, 21,000 gallons, complete with fittings 700 0-41
Garried forward . . .£ 24,770 14-57
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