Word: ksg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soft-coal-into-hard-coal idea is an old one, its history strewn with failures. Hundreds of schemes of low-temperature carbonization have been exhaustively investigated. Chief of these was the German KSG process, which was exploited by International Combustion Engineering Corp., now in the hands of receivers. The Prestcoke method, fruit of eight years experiment, has unique features: briquets that do not crumble; a product free from clinkers with only one-half anthracite's ash, one-quarter its moisture; a high yield of gas and tar. Gas is salable, tar less so. Former projects have suffered through inability...