Temperature Control in Wood Distillation

About: This article is published in Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry.The article was published on 1916-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Vacuum distillation & Distillation.

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Q1. What are the contributions in this paper?

ON WHEAT Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry: The Chemical Section of the Colorado Experiment Station has been engaged for several years in a study of Colorado wheat, to find out, if possible: ( I ) whether Colorado wheat has any distinctive quality which may be considered characteristic of it ; ( 2 ) to determine the factor or factors in ‘ their conditions which are accountable for the same. The result of their first two years ’ work was the publication of Bulletin 205 of this Station, entitled “ Yellow-berry in Wheaf ; Its Cause and Prevention. ” Further reports on this work are contained in Bulletin 208 already issued, and 217 which will appear soon. I hold this to be the imperative duty of every author, even if his production should be of insignificant importance. Still, it applies in some measure, and a portion of the work still to be reported will again be parallel. My work was planned and three seasons ’ work done on my general project before I learned of the existence of this article, giving the record of this work done by these authors a t Poppelsdorf. 

Q2. What is the main point of the article?

instead of requiring evenly sized wood in order to secure good results with pyrometers, possibly by proper control the variability of the size of wood may even prove an advantage. 

Q3. What is the effect of the temperature on the decomposition of wood?

Any control embodying such a conception would certainly result in a very great absence of control during the latter stages of the distillation as the decomposition of a large volume of very dry wood is likely to be extremely violent.