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Conference on Nitrogen Removal From Natural Gas Practical and economical methods of removing excess nitrogen to improve heating qualities ol natural gas and per* mtt recovery of other eatable hydro* carbon products were discussed in Amarillo, Terns, during a recent 2-day conference of nearly 100 ges engineers -and executives of operating and re* search departments of major gos-pipcline and related companies. The con ference emphasized several benefits of removing excess nitrogen from natural gas at its source in the field. Aside from improved besting quality of natural gas, removal of nitrogen would increase capacity of long cross-country pipelines in terms ol measured heating units of fuel, eliminate a noncombustible ele* menl in natural gas, and allow extrac* lion of such heavy hydrocarbons os pro pone and butane for seporote sale. Work on the nitrogen-removol problem is being conducted by Bureau of Mines at its Amarillo helium plant. Natural*goi dept of American Cos Assn is cooperating through its technical and research committee. Power Show to Present Many. Plant Innovations A long list of innovations designed to improve performance of power plants is assured for the 18ih Notional Exposi tion of Power and Mechanical Engi neering, scheduled at Grand Central Palace, New York, N. Y., Nov 29 to Dec 4. ' This is made known through filing of plans for their exhibits by a substantial number of manufacturers who have already contracted for space. Among the new developments that visitors ol the exposition will see is a 2000-hp fluid drive capable of pumping a million pounds of water an hour into a high-pressure boiler. Another ex hibit will feature a type of steam-turbine centrifugal marine boiler-feed pump that is said to have made an almost clean sweep in tankers since its intro* (Continued on page 174) Insulating Qlaia Perform* Double Duty al Utility At Industrial Canal Station of New Orisons Public Service, Insulating gloss keeps window, (n the wait separating control and turbine rooms, free from condensation ond kills machinery noise. Also, plant engineers ond visitors hove hill view f` working turbines ond generators. Specified for the Instolfotlon was Thermoponc, ; on Insuloting glass mode by tho Ubbey*Owens*Ford Glass Co. Double panes of plats gloss, with sealed dehydrated olr space between, make up the units for the in- ;'-;t stollotlon. Temperatures on one side of'the window wall range 95 to 110 F, while on the ether, where air conditioning ij employed, the Icmperoturo Is normally 73 F -COMING EVENTS- Nov 3-4--American Society of Me chanical Engineers, fuels div meeting, beld with American Institute of Min ing Engineers, Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, W. Vs. 0 B Schier, 29 W 39th St, New York 18, New York.. Nov 3-3--American Institute of Electrical Engineers, southern district meeting, TutwHer Hotel, Blrminghem, Als. II H Hentine, secretory, 33 W 39th St. New York 18, N. Y. Nov 23*Dee 4--American Society of Mechanical Engineers, anaual meet* tag, Pennsylvania and New Yorker Hotels, New York, N. Y. Ernest Hart ford, executive assistant secretary, 29 W 39th St, New York 18, N. Y. Nov 29-Dee 4--'18th National Expo sition of Power A Mechanical Engi neering, Grand Central Palace, New York 17, N. Y. Charles F Roth, man*, ger, Crand Central Palace, New York.. Dee 3-^--American Society of Bfr frigerating Engineers, meeting, Stat- . ler Hold, Washington, D.CWS Woodaide. 801 Whittaker Bldg. Baltimore.. Md. Jon 10-14--Third Nslloaol Mated-: lalo Handling Show, jointly ipeasorrd, by American Society of Metkoaksi Engineers ond Material Handling Is*''' lute. Convention Hell. Philadelphia. Bonner & CreJf, 2S0 W 57tb 5t. N* York 19. Jan 24-28--International Heating* Ventilating Exposition, Inieraslicsw Amphitheatre, Chicago, HI* Roth, manager, Grand Central Psto*A, New York 17, N. Y. m `22} P b W E R Novof"h*` '1 LIST OF MATCRIALS CAP AND BODY FORCINGS: Up to 600 psi--SAE 1030 steel 600 to 900 pxi--A5TM F-l moly. steel900 to 2400 psi--ASTM P-J chrome moly. steel. VALVE AND SEAT: Chrome steel, heat treated. BUCKET AND VALVE LIVER ASSEMBLY: 18*8 Stainless Steel. BOLT ANO NUT SET: Bolts supertemp steel, 149,000 lbs. tensile: Nuts,hes, semi-finish, S.A.E. I0>0. Mow,,. 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