THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF FUEL BRIQUETTES IN THE SOVIET BLOC

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 1, 1952
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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OFFICE OF RMiMH AM REPORT
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Use of Fuel Briquettes
1 fiber 1952
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TABLE OF CONTSMS
Genera
aut G.ra
Introduction
Ca ion
apabi1.it ies, Vul rabilitiss, and manti s
Coal ar2
Briquette
IV. CsschosiGvaicia
ChM
1,
Mothodoloa
Appendix A - Sic
quett.es
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of Fuel Brtqusttea in the Bit. B;
he
a d stir fuel and eecoa
yd
iver boat fuel, ?i ar
-East and lest in Ems, has forced the
countries to atte.t to attain se
pressing j
Germany and,, to a lesser dere
briquettes had always
in fuel, The Diet
of a briquette industry because their planned ec or ,e
a million tons a year which an of
of fuel briquettes in East Ge has changed vo id-
erabiy in the past 15 years. In other countries it has remained much the sae,
softy of the U 38R for 1950; The other members of the Soviet Bloc
on of J,,t metric tore in 1951, a quantity four time the
Toducir country among the 'Betel .itee is East Germs which
I# domestic Consumers in Est Germs received 60 percent of the
briquette sup;
pattern has shifted
qu
in 1949 this had been reduced to 8 pert. The pi
pl snt s , therms p*mr p ta, and
92
t of the total.
,quotto industry in Es
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of bituminous and brown coal briq
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The most recent e; cp ri nt
step in the nt
successful..
applied a larp a,
of items-
of briquettes in the Soviet Bloc for the next hundred years will, not
limited by t
on the
q
of supper of raw coal, How r, its continuuation
has been denied to the Bloc. There is
required for
of equipant in
Germany is having sow success in this field aM the reconstruction and. expansion of
17 briquette
production in
of the industry to
9252. Little is known of this facet of briquette
country of this Soffit BIM.
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briquettes is a process by which various guAities and
of coal are ford into uniformly steed shapes. Promarily- the process
Pro-
vides a method of
other wine wascoale, such as the duet and fines obt
h the process has upon the low grade cow # mainly lignite and
low graft coals was l heating value
envy to s
quetting of these co
ability or slacking under
rtation
th the attendant reduction of ais
tore count, lessens the slacking tendency and increases the heat var.
Paz
given weight and therefore the danger of span-
of fuel briquettes
rent we:t ght s: the brick shaped
owl, or pillow-shapod
of 50 e.
4 in Gera
'ice briquette plan in Iota. Originally the ceess was applied
ous coal dust which
d with + al-tar pitch and then caressed
of the
mows, The finished briquettes were of two si aa, one weighing abcAt- 50 Lrrwa arA
the other, about gram.
s nk ed.
made in ossenti
on to seven ki;
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practice there are to
lishod b;
pitch,: in cold c
cooled
0.1 second in a double rc
The two Chormm types of presses
The latter has an hourly capacity of
The dt
capacities o
The briquatting of
co.
cod in
an that o-!' ittr .,r us
dust. The first press was of a r
f bars,
0.4 se
at amewhat
d for not lose than, mimtes at a
r its inventor. some tranty
oll. The procedure in the
dif'fors in
that of bite ous bri tted,
coal must be, grouad
hate been c nly ad
bit
consistency of pastes is then (2)
'rpt in aU Bunpean Col tris
briquette plants at in "ration
a reption of whatever the ate tees the USSR may h
in able to prod
In some of the older types of brown coal brigu.tte pxeae s a eonside
h re-1
driven by the same
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hie that a good of the pros son in the
the M'4311 nwky h+
d ," II brut a were conic d.
at and railroad and river trans
presumably is so u ng the fo
of bittu
iblo# hero cc rsion of furn ss h been incoV to
of the
amaller than the customary
the only speci
the bz1 a tte the a s a nts and . f
to
At loast this was the
of her sm thodi. Sime
or weight
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Past e,3
al production iii made
of the -a.
ce1948 and
1945. The to of
,ime
a
W. These
briquetted form . To satin
-tion has dwindled frm a
production to 8 percent. in 1949. Coke
The brown coal brtctxe'
in 1951
due to the loss of hard coal supplies
(now p of Poland)
,Supplies from the Silesian
the coal consuming
domestic
:d a few other industries have priority
d, or
the Zkwiet Zone is divided into two
eda sttz ative parts.. ne fully controilid t
met u
haft (Soviet Joint Stock Cow,
nteen briquette p
il
This
.on in 1949. Then de of these camas j,
,, Deatzen# Bohtln, a thZaiiI, Decbern-t trk
2/
59.5
-g.-
s
in 1948 *ocpared to nine million metric tons
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briquette
The Borna
BUR INFORMATION
fled the German Democratic Republic. These am adialnistered
Vereiningungen Volkaei it 3etriebe (Association of Nationally
e translation) ge rell r identif3e ! VVBs. Ada 'sa
,. ,titration
Prises acs Borna, 'euselwitz. ereeburiz. Uitterfeld. Ma~eburz,
4 .~`el%0w,.
in the H
chweig: g eb:
at
Irma t center of the brown coal briquet'
'ic
,quette factory in the eleow administr;e-
rater on the, Polish b,
which obtains its brown coal supplies
4,6,000 retric tons
hih of 44,619, metric tt
in 1941
only
of that in 1943. T
of 26,837,,1
ate of produc-
by the general post-war charm lasting throe
7,, and
production which in turn
arried out on both mime and pis by
quantity of
coal
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VRITY INFORrLTIQN
that da
he establishment of the blockade in 1948. LUws
of equipment, chiefly moulds and press ,, h
been curtailed and ha
arded briquette production. For example in 1949, *
of the 1938 stocks of briquette presses was a raiiable
sign of the Soviet Zone envieapd an inereaaed
tion of 38? 195,
195
1951 and
1952 was exceeded by the actual production in
cation were intro eed on 10 Au
ibility of achieving
plants themselves have been more severely affected bye. tta cessation of
In the past additio,
.o replace old ores are now required,, it remains to be seen
force can compensate for the lack of mechanization.
Addition, the d
tent of the briquettes,
quette plats
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in 1952 and reaching 60,900,00
to reach the 1955 figure.,
be o weeded in 19
n ordered,
r has always solved the problem of increased production,
production has had the unfor
due to less thorough
er to reset output goals. Cognizant of this condition,
on has decided upon a reconstruction., ems;
The con'eersion phases of this program will
ion Of normal briquettes to the production of fir *-grain br.'
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,=URM INFORMATION
rseburg
Borna
quettes produced in them factories will have a water content
Brikettfabrik 3 urosto
Bri icett': abrik Mehring
Br ttfabri3c K1 ira Zetkin
Brikettta i :;