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  • čas přidán 26. 01. 2013
  • In this 16mm film made in Melbourne Victoria, we are shown how town gas is made from coal. The steps shown in manufacture take us from mining coal, transporting it to the gas plant, roasting the coal and cleaning the extracted gas, and finally mixing the coal gas with other types of gas for distribution to home and industry. The various uses of gas are outlined. Made by Herschells Films 1959.

Komentáře • 39

  • @jimeditorial
    @jimeditorial Před 7 měsíci +3

    Clear, concise commentary...great for kids

  • @cmw184
    @cmw184 Před rokem +9

    Man this is like a super high tech version of the british one lol

    • @gregorymalchuk272
      @gregorymalchuk272 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Which British one? Do you have the name of a different video?

    • @Shaker626
      @Shaker626 Před 3 měsíci +3

      ​@@gregorymalchuk272 "How Gas Was Made" Fakenham Museum. They had little hand -fired retorts in there.

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 Před 8 dny

    7:07 / 9:32 I remember seeing these Gasometers at the end of Auburn Road, and Toorak Road....

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 Před 8 dny

    2:54 / 9:32 I remember there used to be a coal gas plant out at Box Hill... I wonder if this a picture of it?

  • @earlwarren59
    @earlwarren59 Před 3 lety +4

    Good Times!

  • @Jim-zn9qy
    @Jim-zn9qy Před 3 měsíci

    When I watched mad max a billion years ago, I always wondered why there's no mention of coal or coal gas

  • @Kevin-tr8bx
    @Kevin-tr8bx Před 8 měsíci +1

    COAL GAS IS BAD ASS!!!

  • @leenevin8451
    @leenevin8451 Před rokem +1

    How long did these exist?

    • @SAUBER_KH7
      @SAUBER_KH7 Před 5 měsíci +1

      I can't say for Australia, but Coal Gas AKA: Town Gas fell out of use in the UK in the early 1980s in favor of other alternative fuel sources.
      I've been trying to learn more about Coal Gas/Town Gas since discovering a mod for the game Transport Fever 2, which the mod adds a gas works plant as well as the big gas tanks that are shown in this video.

    • @leenevin8451
      @leenevin8451 Před 5 měsíci +2

      @@SAUBER_KH7 I just discovered there was one near my house. A small one for a mental hospital. Looks like a farm house now

    • @robmcfarlane3602
      @robmcfarlane3602 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Phased out in the 80's

    • @hypercomms2001
      @hypercomms2001 Před 8 dny

      @@robmcfarlane3602 Coal Gas was phased out and replaced with Natural Gas in victoria, Australia about 1968, 69, as I remember the conversion, as gas stoves had to be converted to handle natural gas..

  • @michaelmunson5813
    @michaelmunson5813 Před 7 lety +4

    so being new to this, is this in relation to propane?

    • @phantomsoldier497
      @phantomsoldier497 Před 7 lety +9

      Nope. It was synthesis gas made from coal gassification, known also as Coal gas/town gas, and pumped in pipes like modern lpg.

    • @DiegoMartinez-gj7nk
      @DiegoMartinez-gj7nk Před 4 lety

      Natural gas

    • @monkofmayhem1373
      @monkofmayhem1373 Před 3 lety +10

      @@DiegoMartinez-gj7nk its not natural gas, its town gas made from coal

    • @DiegoMartinez-gj7nk
      @DiegoMartinez-gj7nk Před 3 lety +3

      @@monkofmayhem1373 Town gas and natural gas are the same things. Town gas is natural gas obtained from coal gasification. It was the only source of getting natural gas before the 1950s. Since the 1950s, we all have been using natural gas pumped out of an oil or gas well and, most recently, shale gas. At the end of the day, what we are getting at our home is a mixture of methane, ethane, and traces of light hydrocarbons. Regardless if it came from coal or biomass gasification, oil or gas wells, or shale gas.

    • @monkofmayhem1373
      @monkofmayhem1373 Před 3 lety +7

      @@DiegoMartinez-gj7nk chemically it may be similar but to say natural is town gas is not correct as these terms refer to the extraction of the gas not the chemical compounds.

  • @leenevin8451
    @leenevin8451 Před rokem +1

    Looks new but wasn’t town gas phases out in 60s?

    • @kevinsims2254
      @kevinsims2254 Před 11 měsíci +4

      It was, the film was made in the 50s

    • @hypercomms2001
      @hypercomms2001 Před 8 dny

      In Victoria, it was phased out in about 1968, 1969...

  • @gpo746
    @gpo746 Před měsícem

    ...eat beans..

  • @tacticlol
    @tacticlol Před 3 měsíci

    Now I know why they call it “natural gas”

    • @robmcfarlane3602
      @robmcfarlane3602 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Natural gas comes from the Bass straight gas fields.....The natural gas network took over from the coal gas network in the 80's

    • @hypercomms2001
      @hypercomms2001 Před 8 dny

      @@robmcfarlane3602 No, sorry that is wrong. The conversion occurred in Victoria from 1968-1970...
      "...The conversion process was completed in December 1970. As conversion of appliances occurred throughout the suburbs, section by section, natural gas replaced manufactured gas in the pipelines and the closure of the gasworks began. Highett gasworks ceased operation in August 1969, Lurgi Gas Plant in November 1969 and West Melbourne in December 1970. Colonial Gas stopped production at Box Hill gasworks in November 1969 and Footscray gasworks in March 1970...."
      prov.vic.gov.au/archive/VA1040#:~:text=The%20conversion%20process%20was%20completed,closure%20of%20the%20gasworks%20began.