Date of Award

5-1930

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Biological Sciences

First Advisor

John R. Koch

Second Advisor

William J. Grace

Abstract

Industry is trying to make use of all possible material. In an age of great manufacturing plants, efficiency Is decreased and costs mount rapidly whenever a waste product tends to be formed in a process. The problem resolves itself into selling someone else the waste products in a modified form, if necessary. At the present time, waste products support industries to which they were formerly a liability. In the Ford wood waste distillation plant in 1929, over $2,100,000 worth of benzol was sold. This is in addition to gas, charcoal, methanol and power gotten from the exothermic action from the stills.

Buckwheat hulls form 16% of the buckwheat that the farmer brings to the mill. The rest is divided in this manner: 24% is made into bran, and 60% is actually sold as buckwheat flour. At the present time there are two uses for the hulls. They may be used as saddle packing or else as fertilizer.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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