Manufacture of denatured alcohol. Based on the operations of an experimental still at Washington, D.C., and a course of lectures delivered in connection therewith. /

At head of title: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry.Other collaborators include : Harris Eastman Sawyer, Lucius Moody Tolman, A. Hugh Bryan, Arthur Given, and Henry Wood Berger."Issued January 19, 1910."Appendix: Internal Revenue Circular No. 721, relating to the establishment and operation of stills at agricultural experiment stations for the manufacture of denatured alcohol -- Special denaturants -- Statistics of denatured alcohol production. pp. 159.Legislation and regulations : Legislation providing for the use of industrial alcohol -- Regulations relating to industrial distilleries. pp. 146.Some special uses of industrial alcohol ; Use of alcohol in varnish making -- Use of alcohol in power. pp. 138.Distillery operation and control : Distillery practice -- Yeasting -- Chemcial control of distillery operations applying especially to grain distilleries -- Practical yeasting of distilleries, with special reference to grain distilleries -- Practical operation of a distillery -- Effect of distillation in different types of stills -- Bacteriological technique -- Microscopical examinations. pp. 1909.Sources of alcohol : Utilization of cereals in the manufacture of denatured alcohol -- Utilization of potatoes in the manufacture of denatured alcohol -- Cassava and sweet potatoes as sources of industrial alcohol -- The possibilities of bananas for making industrial alcohol -- Alcohol from cactus -- Prickly pear and its fruits as a source of alcohol. pp. 90.Miscellaneous lectures : Programme for course on denatured alcohol -- Purposes and scope of proposed course on fermentology -- The history of distillation. pp. 85.Denatured alcohols and denaturants : Discussion of term "denatured alcohol" -- Denaturing systems and formulae of different nations -- Denaturing formulas adopted by the United States -- Special denaturants -- Conclusion. pp. 75.Physical and chemical tests in the distillery : Simple tests -- Analytical determinations. pp. 66.Distilation : Operation of a small laboratory unit -- The thermology of distillation -- The earliest type of industrial stil (fire pot still) -- Operation of an experimental distillery for making industrial alcohol. pp. 53.Fermentation processes : Classification of enzymes and their action -- Malting -- Preparation of material for fermentation -- The yeast and its preparation. pp. 32.Sources of alcohol : Chemistry of the carbohydrates -- Raw materials. pp. 18.Alcohols and alcoholometry. pp. 11.Introduction. pp. 9.Mode of access: Internet