Word: naphtha
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...parts. One and one make three. A late 19th century engineer, Wilhelm Maybach, working for Daimler, puts together the newly invented perfume spray with the newly discovered gasoline and comes up with the carburetor. In 1823 Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, working with a throwaway coal tar by-product, naphtha (used to clean out dyeing vats), stumbles across the fact that it will liquefy rubber. So he spreads the rubber between layers of cloth and invents the raincoat...
...fact, prices have already begun inching up for such high-value petroleum products as diesel fuel, naphtha and heating oil. The increase is slower than the breakneck pace that characterized the pay-any-price panic of 1979, when the spot cost of crude oil shot up from $13 to $40 per bbl. In Rotterdam, hub of Europe's volatile crude-oil spot market, small cargoes last week were selling for anywhere from $4 to $5 per bbl. above the long-term average rate of approximately $32 per bbl. that the 13-nation OPEC cartel is now charging...
Word filtered out via diplomatic sources all through the duration of Tirana 1988, telling of picture postcard vendors being charged with selling state secrets and picture postcard buyers being shot as spies...(Attractions included) a working naphtha plant, a working olive grove, a working sheep pasture, and a working coal mine, and the International Halls of Sheep Diseases and Head-Squeezing...
...some ways, it is a key test. If the plant can produce gas at $3.20 per million cu. ft. when it starts operating in 1979, it will succeed in at least matching the economics of existing-and readily marketable-synthetic gases such as those made from naphtha. Becoming a feedstock for "syngas" would open a major new potential for coal, especially the now stymied high-sulfur varieties. The Federal Government would benefit, too, since the plant's success would be an early vindication of its insistence that the nation can achieve relative energy independence...
...high-sulfur variety and cannot be burned without violating federal and state environmental regulations. In a pilot plant soon to be built in California with financial help from the Environmental Protection Agency, TRW will test a process for removing sulfur from coal smoke with ferric sulfate and naphtha. If proved efficient, the process could quadruple use of high-sulfur Eastern coal...