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1ketch.htm — Karrick Subdirectory Page on the source archive

1ketch.htm is the filename of a page in the Karrick subdirectory of the source archive, at the URL [source note 1]. The page carries Richard Ketchum's 1932 report to the Joint Smoke Abatement Committee, "Feasibility of a Pilot Plant for Treating Coal by the Karrick Process."

What is known

What is not known

The page's contents are a 1932 feasibility report by Richard Ketchum on a Karrick-process pilot plant. The filename "1ketch" corresponds to the author's surname, Ketchum. The report includes process descriptions, equipment specifications, cost estimates and operating projections, all as 1932 estimates by the authors.

Status

The page contains a 1932 feasibility report. The full record is at Karrick Page 1ketch.htm: An Empty source Capture in the Coal Mining Library. Claims about the karrick-process or about Lewis Cass Karrick drawn from this page should be attributed to the report's authors as 1932 estimates, not as independent findings.

Source notes & attribution
  1. https://rexresearch.com/karrick/1ketch.htm