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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1920)
; FI - T*T - •« i, SENIOR CHEMICAL KNGI- NEERS BUILD REFINERY ContiBn«d fora Pa^c 1> I r ll 1 is run in the refinin* of crude petro leum. j j IT The still itself is sn ordh»sr>’ hori- zontsl boiler type having two sir oon- denser^ snd one water condenser, Snd • rua-bsck from each into the boiler. It is the product of many hours of hard!work on the part of these men. snd in fact, from pipe fitting to brick laying, the plant is a home product and the ability of the men to oon- strnct this still- under the arising dif ficulties is nothing short of the very highest skill snd technique. The rea son for such a project is needless to state, fbr by taking active part in the construction of the still every man is. perfectly familiar With the minutest detail and known exactly the working order thru which the petroleum must go before it finally api>ears as by product*. While the process of build ing the plant covered a long period of* time, the actual construction was re markably short when the many un avoidable delays, are taken into con- skftersgien; however, the work was - THE BATTALIO completed and everything was made ready for the big evenC -that event I which was to be written down in -the i annals of College history—that event which was to work saccess or failure upon the part of the senior class of ' Chemical Engieeetfng. At. - eleven lu’cloek on Thursday morning of February 5th everything j was prepaxu^ {for action snd by one o'clock the still was hot enough to distill over its first catch. The tern- | perature at jthfs point waa 276 de grees Fahrenheit and when the tem perature reached 325 degrees the first fraction, which comprises the low boiling poiat distillates, was stopped and the second fraction caught, there after after ch^tge of 50 degrees in temperature a catch was made. Th* first fraction was 1.45 percent of the total hatch and sp. gr. was 54 : Be. I Fractions of the following percent were taken: 375°—426 F.j 3.2»«& 47.9° Be. 425 —*75 *0 3.97% 44. ° Be. 475°—526'“F.! S.75% 40.8° Be. ' 525 —550°F. 2.54% 36. Be. Steam was then admitted an frac tions were then taken from aR con densers, Us shown by the accempuny- MB MMs- 4 n S 1 H Cut No Cut No Cut No Cut No. Cut No T Air Condenser No. Air Condenser No. Air Condenser No. 8_ Air Condenser No. 4. Cut t<o. 1 Air Condenser No. I Cut Ko. 2 Air Condenser No. Cut No. 3 Air Condenser, No. . Cut iloj 4 Air Condenser Na. 4. j Cut No. 5 Air Condenser No. 6. 7T‘ Cut No. 1 Water Condenser ... Cut No. 2 Water tondenser .J, Cut No. 3 Water Condenser. C\»t No. 4 Water Condenser Cut No. 5 Water Condenser 10<-9.0 Residue *▼ i.' ox r rc t in Grama. 12M op.or.oe. r. - 31 5.4 —— 476 2S.3 ' 2.0 ./1..1302 "1 r I' : .■'s.e *....1817 t -3 706.5 2.7. 11P3.5 32.4 r sai | 25.4 552 .1217.5 ] .1 55 10f3 1 1 4.6 U 5i5 1v 259 —L.jl87t . 3L6 «J0 ... 121 AS 36. Mnu 36. I4A 9':9.o 21.5 ; 454 C. .26: .0 0 4.7 11.05 1 These fractions were thf lubricating oil frartions. varying from Baume 32.4- to fc3 and from yu- very Uglit- est lubricating oil to Xhf heavy gihaae MfbMkk.' ► '(■■i While the still waf running tiwo temperature readmes were taken; one or the oil itself and the other on the vapor. The temperature of the oil was recorded fiy an electric pyro meter and the temperature * of the vapor with a recording thermometer. The temperature of the vapor varied from 9° up tA 550 K. and the steam and the temperature ^ ture Records, it until the end of temperature of the oil 1 up to 925 F. when the Castillo. C. Ai of Mexico. Fireman. Ballard, A. 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Residence 342 P *44444444 I t » 1444441 I i 4* M. K. Thornton of College Station, I Prof, of Industrial Chemistry, Super- > j Intendent..« • j J it ' i: rT, -he/ 600°r and cleanML.' 1 j I done. During the run the following duties The distillatidn was allowed to cool off. When After the run all were then changed perature inside of the still into chemists ahd the usual routine the still was opened work of the refinery laboratory l yrka | were assigned to each man: YkijMhfer, W. B. of Austin, Engi- iriW. V •! ! SIGNAL CORPS 7. CD O 1*1 In a gridiron battle between the Signal Corps and CD teams l*-t Thursday the Signal Corps team put it over their opposing team and beat them by a score of 7 to 9. The game was all the time in favor of the Sig nal Corps except for once thei CD team threatened to go down the field, hut were stopped in time to cause bo dmmgs.. Although th« Signal Corps missed their fullback. Fish Murray, they played a good game. Fish Am- berg took Murray’s place, and al though he has never played on the • ! ! 1 l >. •: : i; * i ‘L li The Ne . ALEXANDER OYSTERS ALL Come in Whe i | made using Mexican crude iil. At the next run of the still a simple of the Ranger Crude oil will | robabty be used. team before am didg't know half of the signals he wps the one that aiade the only sepre. \ FHsh Walker and Qapt. Allen wer^ there with the good work again. . The score was made in the first half -n Fiah Am berg re ceived the hall ajtfihe wink of the bye of the quarterback and carried’ it through the left end and with the help of Fish Walker he .forced hia way by the CD bunch and carried kho ball over the foal line. .ToaMm) the end of the game the Signal Corps threatened to score again but the WM. B. CLINE. Mfi Eye, Ear, Noee and Specialist ; 4th Floor City Natioi Building, Bryan, whistle blew forced over. >re the ball eouH be 4M l I I I444M»4 I >M» . . i t DRivnna ES N. Y. 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