The Manufacture of Ethyl Alcohol from Wood Waste
Frederick William Kressman
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Nov. 17, 2018)
Excerpt from The Manufacture of Ethyl Alcohol From Wood Waste The yields given in Cohoe's paper, however, do not bear out the claims in his patents, for the paper reports a maximum of 20 per cent of sugars, and the patents claim 25 to 29 per cent of sugars. After the Georgetown plant was disposed of to the Du Pont Co., the Standard Alcohol Co. Underwent a reorganization, some foreign capital was introduced, and a plant designed to produce gal lons of 188-proof alcohol a day was erected at Fullerton, La. This plant was never operated successfully by the Standard Alcohol Co. Because of certain internal financial difficulties caused by the war. Since the introduction of additional foreign capital was out of the question, new American interests acquired a lease of the plant to demonstrate to their own satisfaction the commercial feasibility of the process. These interests, under the name of the Standard Lessee Corporation, operated the plant from July, 1916, until June, 1917. They then purchased the plant and patents under the name of the International Alcohol Corporation. The plant has been operated successfully since the latter part of 1916 up to tbc present time (december. 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.