Bulletin, Issue 45The Survey, 1915 - Geology |
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acre-foot acres Air Dried Air drying loss amount ash content average briquettes British Thermal Units BULLETIN XLV carbon dioxide cassandra cattails cent chemical clay County cranberry Dane County Depth of sample distillation Dried As Received Dry Fuel Combustible Dry Fuel Moisture dry peat engine factory feet fibrous Fixed Carbon Fond du Lac formed GAS FROM PEAT gases grass Heafford Junction heating value Hydrogen inches Kiel Lamartine Peat Lignite Location of sample machine peat manufacture material Mendota Minocqua moss Nitrogen oxygen peat bogs peat fuel peat industry peat lands PEAT SAMPLE BOTTLE PEAT SAMPLE SACK plants pound producer gas PROXIMATE ANALYSIS quantity of peat raw peat Received Dry Fuel Received Moisture Report sample from surface sample in bed sedge soil sphagnum Sulphur TABLE tamarack temperature tested tons utilization vegetation Volatile Matter Waupaca WAUPACA COUNTY Whitewater Wisconsin peat WISCONSIN SURVEY wood Yahara River
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Page 98 - Moisture, per cent Volatile Matter per cent • Fixed Carbon, per cent Ash, per cent...
Page 15 - Anthracite coal 63 1 00 1 00 1 45 The following table gives an idea of the heating power and chemical composition of peat and other fuels. TABLE 5. Heating Power and Chemical Composition of Fuels.* C means per cent of carbon contained in the combustible; H, the per cent of hydrogen; O, the per cent of oxygen; N, the per cent of nitrogen; and S, the per cent of sulphur. *From "Steam Engines and Boilers,
Page xviii - A bog is an area of wet, porous land, on which the soil is made up principally of decayed and decaying vegetable matter, so loosely consolidated, and containing so much water, that the surface shakes and trembles as one walks over it. The vege*Davis, CA.
Page 175 - There are deeper and more extensive deposits than the ones given — the selection of those to be tested having been controlled by the necessities of other departments of the survey. Peat has been used in this region to some extent as a fertilizer, and always with good results. Its value is much increased when mingled with other kinds of fertilizers, and it is especially efficient in absorbing the liquid manures that are usually wasted. The good results of the few trials that have been made, corroborated...
Page 227 - ... coal and waterpowers on the future development of Wisconsin peat deposits will now be discussed briefly. COAL SUPPLY The reports of the United States Geological Survey give the following information about coal supplies. * The known coal areas of the United States embrace a total area of 310,296 square miles, to which may be added something over 160,000 square miles of which little is known but may contain workable coal, and about 32,000 square miles where the coal lies under heavy cover and is...
Page 9 - Earthy peat, nearly or altogether destitute of fibrous structure, drying to earthlike masses which break with more or less difficulty, giving lusterless surfaces of fracture; specific gravity, 0.41 to 0.90, the full cubic foot weighing from 25 to 56 pounds.
Page 17 - It is the purpose of this chapter to point out some of the methods, processes, and machinery which have been employed in Europe and elsewhere in efforts to utilize peat deposits.
Page 9 - Fibrous peat, unripe peat which is brown or black in color, less elastic than turfy peat, the fibers either of moss, grass roots, leaves or wood, distinguishable by the eye, but brittle and easily broken; specific gravity, 0.24 to 0.27, weight from 15 to 42 pounds per cubic foot.
Page 5 - Concerning the origin of coal, White ft has to say as follows: "The fact is almost universally accepted that beds of coal represent accumulations of vegetal matter in varying stages of preservation, with, as a rule, very small proportions of the remains of animal life. Mingled with the organic substances are different inor*Carter, WEH. 12th Report of the Bureau of Mines: Ontario. 1903. p. 193. tDavis, CA. "Origin and Formation of Peat.