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Mow B. P. Nelson Mfg. Co. increased condensate in boiler feed 70% with SORBO-CEL VPhea B. P. NUoa Mfg. Co. tddcd sew 423-pti boiUri, oil In coedeanto was an expensive problem . , . until they switched to fiorbo-Cet filtration. Average oil concentration inold boilers was 63 ppm. Concentration in coodensate receivers ran 33.4 ppm, tnoetlr emulsified. About 3096 of boiler fend was condensate. Problem: to keep oil out of new fcoikri. Of comparing tnttbodt.tbtj found ibml fitirmiiom with SorboCti.iptcisily processed dimtomti* fUirr mid... did Me Peer fob, Sorbo-Cel slurry is fed into conden sate to attract oil aod bold It until it reaches filters. Sorbo-Cel collects on pistes and builds up highly porous cake. Operation is continuous until there is no more room fot cake between pistes--usually 70 hours. Tbday. 839b of boiler feed is con densate. Labor.and-materlnl costs are only 1.7 rents every 1000 Ibi Since B. P. Nelson produces two million pounds of store a day. savings from reclaimJog such a high percentage of conden sate can readily be imogioed. For further Information about. Sorbo-Cel filtration mail tbe caapoa below. Johns-Manville SORBO-CEL ' Jehai-Mknville Box 60. New York 16. N. Y. sow.it Please send me free bulletin string advantages of Sorbo-Cel filtration. Addran More POWER NEWS is gee# nt March said that plutonium produced in breeder reactors must be sold to the government if the reactor is to be op erated economically. He pointod out that cost of uranium is a negligible part nf total coil, so that fuel com, fuel savings and thermal efficiencies are not too impnriant. For this reason he does not.believe that it will be necessary to produce power by means of high tem perature, high pressure steam requir ing the use of relatively expensive pip ing alloys. At.t.rcHr.hV Ludlum Srr.r.t. Coup has started an expanded program for the production of zirconium atrip and other shapes for atomic energy applications. This program is the result of over two years research and production exper ience in melting and shaping sirconium metal. In this work, Allegheny Ludlum has been cooperating 'with the AECs Bettis Plant in Pittsburgh. Zirconium is especially suited to cer tain reaotors because it wastes few neutrons and has a high resistance to certain types of corrosion. However, the metal's usefulness in reactors depends on the elimination of hafnium, an ele ment (Hal is present as a contaminant In natural zirconium. The Oak Ridge National Laboratories of the A EC de veloped a method to remove hafnium and to obtain pure zirconium in sponge form. Allegheny Ludlum has become the first private organization to go into melting this sponge into ingots. U. N. Will Spend ISO-million On Korean Power Facilities Reconstruction op South Korea wil] include o foreign expenditure of close to $30-million for rehabilitation and expansion of etectric power gener ating capacity. The first stage of the program will get underway shortly with the repair of 17 stations at an estimated cost of f3.6-mi(lion for foreign engineer ing and equipment. Firms bidding for the reconstruction contract oro: Utah Construction Co; Vinnel! Corp; Cilbert Overseas Corp; Adrian Wilson ft Associates; Kuljien Corp; Morrlson-Knudscn International Co; Burns & Rne; Daniel, Mann, John son ft Mendenhall; Rogers Engrg Co, Inc; U. S. Consultants Inc in association with Crave, Sheppard, Wilson ft Kruge and Sanderson A Porter. Supervision of the contract falls to the Koreon Civil Assistance Command (KCAC), a sub sidiary unit of the U. S. Army. The dollars hove been made available by the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKFIA). (Continued on page 262) 260 in Business Week to remind management men throughout industry of the vast scope and key importance of power and of the men who direct the power services rower NOVEMBER 1950 We believe Mr; Malenkov and his friends, when measuring us, are concerned with something a lot less dramatic, but perhaps more Important, than most people think. We don't believe they spend nearly as much time counting our bombs. . . as they spend counting our kilowatts. Surely there just can't be any doubt that America's powerful punch is our ability to produco goods. In overwhelming, never-ending, suffocating quantities. And behind every article or service we perform Is power. There's a relatively small community of men who create and deliver that power wherever it is needed. There are the engineers who design and construct the huge power plants wc call utilities... the engineers who operate those utilities and send raw power on Us woy ... the men in industry who receive it, sometimes make . their own power, ond always transform it into Us many magic forms of beat, steam, motor power, cool air, and so on. Lastly, thero are the men who make the equipment that makes the power that makes the wheel turn. The great, great majority of all these men have one habit in common. Thoy read POWER magazine. The reason they read it is that for more than 70 years it's been POWER'S Job to bring these, men the latest news and finest details of their fast-moving field of work. Because the power field, thank goodness, is fast-moving. In just 15 years we've put 2 more horsepower behind every worker in the United States. In those same 15 years the cost of energy has dropped by 21*. That's why it behooves most management men to ask questions and get advice about their own plant's power network. Are you sure it's os modem ond efficient as it should be? Your power engineer knows. Better ask him. On* of Amerfto'a prfmory Imfvitriol madia ond a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation* WtUt KfU . . . 261 t i. 15 7 <i i i