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MANUFACTURED GAS IN THE HOME

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PART I. Public's Interest In Manufactured Gas

Magnitude --- 1
Growth --- 1
Geographical dístrìbution --- 1
Effect of declíning natural gas supply --- 1
Effect of home economics teaching --- 4
Gas small part of total meal cost --- 4
Relative cost of ''home-cooked'' and ''ready-to-serve'' cereals --- 5
Relative cost of various fuels --- 5
Eletricity can not replace gas --- 6
How eletric cooking and heating would wasts coal --- 7
Waste of gas coals in beehive coke ovens --- 8
Governmental research on correct manufactured-gas use --- 8
Gas industry is rapidly changing --- 9
Volume of gas Used not always increased by lower heating value --- 9
Classifcation of manufactured-gas consumers --- 10
How gas índustry is related to smoke nuisance --- 10

Part II. Correct Use of Manufactured Gas.

Methods of utilization determine quality of service produced --- 11
Absence of gas-appliance regulations --- 11
What must happen when gas is burned --- 12
What may happen when gas is burned --- 12
Combustion products of gas can not be destroyed --- 12
Flueless heating stoves always dangerous --- 13
Flueless heating stove more dangerous than flueless cook stoves --- 13
Blue-flame burner --- 13
Luminous-fame burners --- 14
Cooking requires little heat --- 15
Steps necessary for correct cooking --- 15
More gas is used for cooking in winter than in summer --- 16
Rusting of ovens and burners --- 16
Steps necessary for correct house heating --- 16
Steps necessary for correct hot-water heating --- 17
Lighting should be from incandescent mantle lamps only --- 17

Part III. Economic Aspects of the Manufactured-Gas Industry.

Why economic aspects are controlling --- 19
What term ''cost'' must include --- 19
Defnition of profit --- 19
Misleading manufactured-gas cost data --- 20
Significance of fixed charges --- 20
Characteristics of house heating --- 20
What peak load means --- 22
Analysis of house-heating problem --- 22
Variation in gas demand for house heating --- 23
Universal manufactured-gas house heating not feasible --- 23
Limitations of long-distiance transmission of gas --- 23
Factors controlling by-product coke oven gas use --- 24

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