Die Industrie des Königreichs Württemberg

Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

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Identifikator:: 832772666

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-75011

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Die Industrie des Königreichs Württemberg

Place of publication:: Prag

Publisher:: Mercy

Year of publication:: 1873

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PART II. Petrol is landed in England to-day at a price which enables it to be retailed at 1s. 6d. per bulk gallon, and there appears to be no reason why it should not be delivered to Mombasa at the same price. With serious competition it could be marketed at a little less than this, and if power spirit is to compete with petrol in East Africa, the production costs must be low enough to combat a fall in the Mombasa price of petrol, exclusive of import duty or taxes, to about 1s. 6d. per gallon. For export, power spirit would have to be delivered to seaboard for something less than 1/- per gallon, which appears not to be possible on account of rail freight. Cost or PropuciNg Avrconor: The cost of manufacturing alcohol from cane molasses has been estimated at 4d. to 5d. per gallon, including interest on capital and depreciation of plant. Heriot at a meeting of the Society of Chemical Industry, 1915, quoted actual figures from the balance sheet of a Demerara Distillery showing the cost of producing 909, alcohol to be as low as 3d. per gallon, but he estimated the cost of 959 alcohol to be 5d. per gallon. In 1920, alcohol was produced in Cuba from cane sugar residues for 63d. per gallon and retailed at 10d., and during the same year in Brazil the retail price was 9d. per gallon. Fuel accounts for 80—509% of the manufacturing costs and according to the South African Sugar Journal, 1920, the coal consumed in making one gallon of alcohol was stated to be 7—8 Ibs. Coal is imported into Mombasa in large quantities for about Shs. 32/- per ton and is conveyed to any station on the main line in 20 ton lots at a flat rate of Shs. 20/- per ton. Therefore the probable cost of coal at any station, including freight and handling charges, is about Shs. o6/- per ton. Assuming it to be as high as Shs. 65/- the coal required for producing 1 gallon of aleohol would cost not more than 8d. Wood should be cheaper still and by doubling the fuel cost, 5d.—6d. is obtained as the average cost of producing a gallon of alcohol. On the other hand the Crown Agents for the Colonies give the fuel consumption as 15 lbs. of coal and although this probably refers to the manufacture from starchy material, in which extra power is required for the preliminary conversion of the starch to fermentable sugars, the difference between a consumption of 7 and 15 Ibs. of coal is difficult to explain. With a coal consumption as high as this the cost of manufacturing a gallon of aleohol would be just over 10d. Desborough, also, at a meeting of the Society of Chemical Industry, 1920, estimated the cost of manufacturing 959 alcohol from starchy material to be 9d. per gallon. This included depreciation of plant, but did not include the interest on capital which he calculated at 4d. per gallon, thus bringing the cost, apart from that of the raw material to 1s. 1d. per gallon. For the interest on capital to be 50 per cent. of all other charges appears extraordinarily high, and it is probable that these figures are above normal, and were based on post- war industrial conditions in England. To etherise alcohol for the production of a motor spirit probably costs 2d. or 3d. per gallon, and assuming the average cost of producing one gallon of alcohol to be 6d. power spirit could be placed on the local market only if the raw material for making one gallon were purchased for not more than 5d. 41

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