Colonel Ralph Glyn: ...regard to lighter-than-air machines, the German Zeppelin was, I suppose, the finest lighter-than-air machine known. During the war the Germans put up very large establishments for the production of hydrogen. Some of these hydrogen plants are still in existence, still working, and it is possible for the Germans to use their lighter-than-air craft. They might, if they did not do any damage...
Mr William Bridgeman: ...be a test by standardised machinery recognised by the Board of Trade. At present these are only made after due notice has been given to the undertakers. That the gas should contain no sulphuretted hydrogen and that there should be a limit to inert or incombustible constituents. That the undertakers must declare the calorific value they undertake to supply and give notice of any change in...
Sir William Pearce: ...in that position because it had this dye industry, and for two years this country was in great jeopardy because we had not that sulphuric anhydride supply. There was also the case of chlorine and hydrogen. There was not a big manufacture of either of those before the War in this country, while in Germany there were both made on an immense scale by the dye corporations. Chlorine was used...
Mr George Bowyer: 14. asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether his attention has been drawn to the invention of a process for manufacturing a non-inflammable gas, of approximately the same lift as hydrogen, called currenium; and, in view of the fact that it is reported that this gas can be produced much more cheaply than helium, will the Admiralty take the necessary steps to obtain full...
Lieut-Colonel John Moore-Brabazon: ..., this House may very easily drift along lines which will involve us in enormous expense for no definite object at all. After all, it is a question for experts, and we knew during the War that a hydrogen filled airship, from a military point of view, was one of the things most easily knocked out that ever went into the air. I grant you that America, from the naval point of view, looks with...
Rear-Admiral Sir Murray Sueter: ...will realise that there is no use carrying out experiments in laboratories for gas bags [...] hot climates. You want to send a complete section of an airship out to India. with its gas bag, hydrogen to inflate it, and to go into the whole question of leakage, by osmosis and of fabrics which will withstand a very hot climate, damage from actinic rays, and so on. You want to carry out a...
Rear-Admiral Sir Murray Sueter: ...has ever been made in this direction was to insert the exhaust gases from a petrol motor round a small gas bag. These gases are carbon monoxide and carbon di-oxide. [An HON. MEMBER: "Sulphuretted hydrogen !"] No, not sulphuretted hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon di-oxide. These are heavy gases; and how is the hon. and gallant Member for Maidstone going to circulate them round the ring...
...was that on the 22nd March, 1918, the Minister of Munitions received sanction to proceed with the erection of a factory at Billingham-on-Tees for the production on a large scale of nitrogen and hydrogen and for combining nitrogen and hydrogen so obtained for the production of ammonium nitrate to the ultimate extent of 60,000 tons per annum.
Mr Samuel Hoare: It is proposed to use hydrogen gas for the experimental flights to Egypt and the East without any admixture of helium, as helium has only been produced commercially in the United States, and its export from that country has been prohibited. The cost of hydrogen gas produced at the Royal Airship Works by the water-gas process is about 10s. per 1,000 cubic feet. If produced by a silicol plant...
Mr Samuel Viant: ...upon the improvements to be embodied in the repairs to the mooring mast at Pulham; and when will the mast be ready for use? (2) when the completion of the mooring mast and air station, including hydrogen producing plant, at Ismailia is expected; when will the R. 36 be ready for the experimental service to Egypt; and what is the estimated cost of re-conditioning the R. 36 for this service?
...being actively pursued in this country, both at the Fuel Research Station and by a number of firms and individuals. Extensive experiments on the production of oil by the so-called Bergin method of hydrogenating coal are being carried on in Germany. A number of British firms are represented in these experiments, and, by agreement, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research obtain...
Mr Frank Rose: 73. asked the Secretary of State for Air if the airship now under experiment at Cardington is to be inflated by helium or hydrogen gas; and the estimated cost of 5,000,000 cubic feet, respectively, of these gases?
Mr Harry Day: 26. asked the Secretary of State for Air when it is expected to launch the giant airship R.100; whether the special engines, using a mixture of paraffin and hydrogen, will be fitted to this airship; and, if not, if he can state how many, and what other make of, engines will be fitted?
...carbonisation processes have long been employed for the extraction of oil from brown coals in Germany. It is understood that oil is now also being produced on a commercial scale in Germany by the hydrogenation of brown coal.
Sir George Clayton: Yes, it is a synthetic oil, because you have added the hydrogen to the coal. I have mentioned that these processes have been investigated by representatives of Imperial Chemical Industries, of which I am a director, and they are now in contact with the German group, the Interessen Gemeinschaft, familiarly called the I.G. I also want to assure the House that, should these processes which have...
...oil and spirit obtained from one ton of a suitable coal treated by the Bergius method amounts to from 110 to 135 gallons. In addition, a further unknown amount of coal is necessary for power and hydrogen production. The highest yields of dry tar and spirit, observed by the Fuel Research Staff, as obtained from the low-temperature carbonisation of ordinary coal in a large scale plant, is...
Lord Eustace Percy: ...and the results have confirmed that large quantities of liquid fuels can be obtained from coal by this process. A beginning has been made in the investigation of the whole question of the action of hydrogen on coal under different conditions, and interesting results are being gradually accumulated. There can be no doubt about the interest and importance of the process referred to by the...
Mr Philip Lloyd-Greame: ...use of coal?" I disagree with him, in the first place, that here there is no room for private enterprise. That ignores the whole of the experience of Germany, and all that has been done in hydrogenation in Germany, which is the product of private enterprise, and not of government activity. But the Government are doing a great deal here. The right hon. Gentleman said, "What about...
Lord Eustace Percy: ...the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education on 11th May last, and by my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade yesterday, the practical result of the Department's work on hydrogenation has been to establish that British coals available in quantity can be converted into oil by methods which I understand are now being thoroughly investigated from the commercial point...
..., is now under consideration, but it is probable that publication will be delayed until the investigations have been further advanced. No English process for the conversion of coal into oil by hydrogenation has been brought to the notice of the Fuel Research Board. As regards low-temperature carbonisation, besides the work undertaken at the Fuel Sesearch Station, investigations have been...
