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...roof of Enamelstrip Corp. in Allentown, Pa. last week clambered Lehigh County Judge John H. Diefenderfer. There he sniffed suspiciously at the company's chimney. For months, nearby residents had been after an injunction against Enamelstrip as a public nuisance for the stench given off by its ovens (which bake enamel on to metal at 500° Fahrenheit). Judge Diefenderfer, after several judicious sniffs, said: "I can't smell a thing...
...smiled proudly. In the late 1930s French-born Inventor Houdry made himself a millionaire, and created one of the biggest single advances in the oil industry's history, by his invention of the Houdry process of "catalytic cracking."* Now, Inventor Houdry had taken the stench out of Enamelstrip's ovens with some new catalytic magic performed in the company's chimneys...
...results, reported Enamelstrip's General Manager Arthur E. Uhleen, are almost too good to believe. The original purpose, to eliminate odors and other pollution, proved to be merely incidental to a big increase in the whole plant's efficiency. Not only odors but energy in the form of heat was going out the chimney. Houdry's catalytic units are capturing and saving it, so that Enamelstrip's gas bill has been...
This heat is channeled back to the original furnace and thus cuts down the use of fuel. The installation cost Enamelstrip $16,000, but fuel savings alone will pay this cost within six months. Enamelstrip, which was spending $3,000 a month on gas before the units were installed, is now spending only $300. Said Uhleen: "We're getting so much heat out of them that we're throwing a lot of it away. We plan to heat the whole plant with part of the excess...
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