West Virginia Pulp and Paper

Active Carbon" under "Carbon" in ECT 1st ed., VoL 2, pp. 881—899, byj. W. Hassler, Nuchar Active Carbon Division, West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., and J. W. Goet2, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. "Activated Carbon" under "Carbon" in ECT 2nd ed., VoL 4, pp. 149—158, by E. G. Doying, Union Carbide Corp., Carbon Products Division "Activated Carbon" under "Carbon (Carbon and Artificial Graphite)" in ECT 3rd ed., Vol. 4, pp. 561—570, by R. W. Soffel, Union Carbide Corp. 

A plant for the fermentation of sulfite waste liquor in America was built at Mechanicsville, New York, by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company in 1914. The alcohol stills and some of the other equipment were imported from Germany and were considered the most modern at that time. In comparison to present American stills, these were very inefficient because they were wasteful of steam and did not recover all the alcohol. This plant reused the yeast from a previous fermentation for succeeding fermentations. The plant produced about 221,000 gallons of alcohol per year in 1919. In later years, because of the inefficiency of the alcohol stills with dilute alcohol solutions, molasses was added to the sulfite waste liquor to increase the alcohol content. The plant operated until 1939, when it was closed because of obsolescence. 

West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., Polychemicals Div., Technical Bull. 300. 

We wish to thank Frank J. Ball, Director of Charleston Research Laboratory, West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., Charleston, S. C. for his constant interest and the management of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., for permission to publish this work. 

The authors wish to express their sincere thanks to West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., N. Y., for financial support and F. J. Ball and J. Marton for stimulating discussions and criticisms. The generous help... 

From Active Carbon the Modern Purifier, published by West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, New York reprinted by courtesy of copyright owner. 

Much of the discussion on water purification that follows is taken from papers by E. A. Sigworth, Taste and Odor Control /., Vol. 27, Nos. 10 and 11 (1961), through courtesy of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, 230 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 

Harris, J. P., and Glick, B. N., Oil and Fat Ind., 5 263 (1928). Harris, J. P., Active Carbon in the Decolorizing, Deodorizing, and Purifying of Oils, Fats, and Related Products, Industrial Chemical Sales Division, West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., New York, 1944. 

H. E. Pennington and H. B. Allport, of National Carbon Company Jonathan C. Cooper, of Pittsburgh Chemical Company R. W. Behrens, of Atlas Chemical Industries Inc. Joseph M. Wafer, of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company H. L. Bamebey, of Barnebey-Cheney W. C. Bokhoven and Chr. van der Meijden, of N.V. Norit-Vereeniging Verkoop Centrale. 

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