Author:Adam, JDate:1938The method normally employed in determining the amount of carbon present in a combustible material is to combust in a system of oxygen.Read more
Author:Vogel, JCDate:1938The high capital cost of coal hydrogenation plant makes it essential that oil output be maintained at high level as possible as this factor must primarily govern the choice of the coal to be used or the decision as to whether as coal is ...Read more
Author:Tromp, FJDate:1941The object of this paper is to examine the feasibility of making blends of alcohol with standard petrol which can be used alternatively with standard petrol in ordinary motor cars without special engine adjustments.Read more
Author:Quass, FWDate:1943This report details a series of six boreholes put down by the Anglo-Transvaal collieries Ltd., on the farm Grootpan in the Witbank District of Transvaal.Read more
Author:Quass, FWDate:1943In September, 1939, an intensive survey of the torbanite occurrences in the vicinity of Mooifontein 287, north of Ermelo, was begun by the Geological survey.Read more
Author:Tromp, FJDate:1943This report details the questioning of the liability of Merthyr coal to spontaneous combustion, and whether it constitutes a danger to life or property.Read more
Author:Gaigher, BDate:1944During the period December 1941 to January 1942, three boreholes were put down by the Middleburg Steam Coal and Coke Company on the farms Hartebeesfontein and Blesbokfontein in the Bethal district of Transvaal.Read more
Author:Gaigher, BDate:1944During 1942 a series of 14 boreholes was put down by the South African Iron and Steel Industrial Corporation on the farms Welstand 34, Rietkuil 27, Diepspruit 25 and Roodepoort 24, in the Bethal District of TransvaalRead more
Author:La Grange, CCDate:1944This report described work done at the Institute to ascertain whether South African coals could be used in the preparation of carbonaceous zeolites. The object of the present investigation was to determine whether South African coal would ...Read more
Author:Van der Merwe, CCDate:1945This report deals with the characteristics of the coal as revealed by both these drilling programmes, although boreholes No. 1/41, 2/41 and 3/41 were excluded from the composite samples that were made up.Read more
Author:Union of South AfricaDate:1945The document is an act to promote scientific and industrial research and has the purpose to (i) establish a South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, (ii) define the objects for which it is established, (iii) prescribe the ...Read more
Author:Van der Merwe, CCDate:1945This is a report on samples taken from the No. seam at the Schoongezicht colliery, Witbank district. For the purpose of further and more detailed investigation, samples based on the proximate analyses were made up.Read more
Author:Tromp, FJ; Bushell, LADate:1945Work published by the FRI shows that the relative friability or the relative ease of disintegration of coal, can be measured by its shatter index.Read more
Author:CSIRDate:01 Nov 1945Inauguration of the council: The Council was set up by the Governor-General in terms of the Scientific Research Council Act on October 5th 1945, and the Prime Minister, the right Honorable J.C. Smuts, honored it by delivering an address at ...Read more