Word: naphtha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...wall of solid coal at the end of the tunnel where the coal is actually extracted. During the four-mile journey, the beams from the lamps on the miners' hats bore through the darkness, picking up eerie, abandoned passageways, diggings of another day. The foreman carries a small naphtha lamp; if the lamp's flame flares up, it indicates the presence of flammable methane gas and the threat of fire; if it goes out, it means that the oxygen has been depleted to dangerous levels. Each man has clipped to his belt a small canister with an hour...