Gas production in continuous vertical retorts costs in capital £48 per kilowatt equivalent and in oil reforming plants £8.
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He felt this so keenly that he retorted with a flat denial.
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Steps, however, are being taken to erect batteries of retorts at a limited number of colliery centres where the conditions are suitable.
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His remarks about fatuity were wrong and unjust and could be retorted on his own comments on the matter.
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Once the compressors and retorts are available they can be used for either purpose.
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They have retorted, also with some justification, that closing tax loopholes effectively places extra taxes on business.
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In the case of shale oil there are pits which are worked entirely for the production of coal to heat the retorts.
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Carbonisation in a further 72 retorts will follow in a short time.
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Oil is extracted from the shale in retorts, and, therefore, all the fire-producing qualities of that material are removed.
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In general there was another difficulty, that the retorts, which were made of cheap metal, were found to distort and require frequent replacement.
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I retorted that professional writers tend to he frequent, if rather laborious, speakers, and that no one ever said that they spoke particularly well.
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Powdered activated carbon is produced along with the granular in crushing the lumps or pieces of carbon from the retorts where it is made.
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They used the old horizontal retorts, for instance; now, of course, the vertical method is employed in all up-to-date gas undertakings.
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The same applies to heavy industries, such as in the gas industry, where vertical retorts, and so on, are utilised.
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We import clays for refractory purposes for gas retorts and so on from foreign countries.
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