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ing such new as may be required, or changing over such stock designs as will fit the occasion. Also in arranging the units for you in a progressive and proper correlation, in laying all this work out for you quickly and completely, and in providing the necessary shop drawings worked out in the minutest detail, so that you can ask any Foundry, Machine Shop, or Boiler Maker to name you a price on it.

I am also at your service to assist you all that you may wish in the buying of the units, but as every man believes he is capable of doing his own buying and generally he is, then I try to prepare you to do it in the best manner possible, rather than to insist on doing it for you myself.

I can direct you to numerous concerns who are fitted to do the work. Frequently I already have their figures. This does not mean you are in any way obligated to deal with them if you can do better elsewhere, their prices, however, may be indicative and thus be of help to you.

I furnish you all the Chemistry, both practical and the theory, hundreds of sheets of typewriting as we go along and post you on every step.

I teach your employees all the necessary steps and supervise the work from start to finish.

I direct you to the various sources of raw materials, and if necessary to the proper people where you can dispose of your product.

You will receive in all over $2,500 worth of drawings and drafting work and all this can be done in a very few weeks time.

While I shall not be able to be in personal attendance on the work all the time that your plant is going up, I expect to be there as often as necessary and stay as long as may be required, but as I have other plants that also require my services at the same time, you would be obliged to have someone in charge of the actual erection work, and I would keep them supplied with minute instructions ahead of time all the while, and the drawings would be ready as fast as they were needed.

I would start up the plant for you and not leave it until a competent man had been properly broken in and was capable of running it.

The Chemistry of Synthetic Phenol is quite intricate, but all this is made very clear, and every side reaction is carried out, and the theory worked out at every stage of the process for comparison with the actual results.

With the assistance then that I can give you, it places you

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BOTH FLOOR PLANS AND SIDE ELEVATION, FOR TWO TON PHENOL

PLANT WITHOUT BENZOL RECTIFIER.

Buildings 245 ft. long (over all), 40 ft. wide and 291⁄2 ft. high on sides.

in a few days time in a position in which you are as well posted on the whole subject, both chemical and mechanical, as anyone can be after a year's steady application at the work.

It gives you all this information in time and upon which you are able to intelligently make your purchases of equipment, and it gives you a feeling of real confidence in the project that you cannot have where you pay a lump sum for the apparatus, the process and its setting up, and know very little about it all until you are called upon to pay the bill and take it over.

This is the real function of a Chemical Engineer and not that of mixing an apparatus manufacturing commercial proposition up with professional work. In specializing on one or two subjects thus, the Engineering work should then have some real merit.

CHARGES AND TERMS.

The charges for the writer's services as Chemical Engineer are based on the capacity of the Phenol plant.

All the information that is required on every part of the work will be furnished you.

You will be directed to the sources of supply for the raw materials and help given you in locating suitable manufacturers to build your apparatus.

Building plans and suggestions will be submitted to you on all the construction work.

All the units and their arrangement will be properly designed beforehand.

Instruction will be given your employees in the various steps of the process, and you will receive such advice as you may need in preparing and marketing the product.

For this entire service the charge is $2,500 per ton daily capacity of the plant and that amount as a minimum charge. This money is paid as follows:

$500 Cash upon delivery to you of the details of process and manufacture, and a collection of over 100 general drawings that will serve to illustrate the apparatus and its proper operation. This set of drawings will represent over $2,000 alone.

The drawings (each 26x36 inches), and typewriting, are handsomely bound in book form, gold lettered and suitable for preservation.

A contract is also entered into, embodying all essential

points and covering a period of two years.

Opportunity is then given the Client to thoroughly familiarize himself on every point, and explanations are given of any obscure portions.

It is supposed that during this time the Client will produce some Phenol himself in the Laboratory according to the instructions and without any assistance whatever from the Engineer, and thus settle definitely as to whether the process is correct or not. This will then leave no occasion for asking for guarantees, bonds, or references to other Phenol plants that the Engineer may at the same time be also associated with.

If the process then is as it has been represented, and you have submitted the drawings to competent mechanical advisors who approve of them, and you are still disposed to continue the project, then the Engineer is to receive a drawing account of from $50 to $75 per week, according to distance, which shall continue until the plant is in operation and has been capable of producing for 30 days; then the balance of the $2,500 (less all amounts so far paid) is to be paid.

If after such study of the project as outlined above, you should for any reason whatever decide the project not advisable, you are at liberty to withdraw without further payments or obligations if you wish to do so, except the obligation, that if at any time during the ensuing two years you should take the project up again, that it reinstates the contract just where it was left off, whether the completion of the work is done by the writer or by someone else.

In this event it has cost you merely the $500 to become thoroughly posted on the whole subject, but as there has virtually been delivered over to you all the information on receipt of the $500, it is considered that the balance of $2,000 is still due, if you eventually go into the business, whether with the same or with a different Engineer.

If the project, however, is carried out, the writer is at your service during the entire two years for consultation and advice without further charge, and is to supply you all Engineering details for plant enlargement whenever they are wanted, and likewise to receive a pro-rata fee on any increased capacity whenever it is actually attained.

As the writer is putting in work of this kind all the time, you have the opportunity of thus learning all the newer methods as they are applied and can keep abreast of everything that may thus be of value.

It would be impossible to do the work at the above price

except that now an immense stock of drawings have accumulated to draw from, and thus it is possible to work very rapidly.

The amount of the fee will be easily saved in the purchase of your apparatus alone, and you could not possibly install the plant yourself for the same figures that it can be supervised for you, besides the work can thus be done in about one-third the time that you would take in the usual way.

About 60 days is required to install a one-ton plant after the buildings and power are ready for it.

CONSULTING WORK ON SYNTHETIC PHENOL.

While it is the intention of the writer as Engineer to devote the most of his time during the present high price of chemicals to the designing and installation of new Synthetic Phenol and Beta Naphthol plants, yet where opportunity is offered of consultation and remodeling of present plants, he will be glad to co-operate with the owners to the changing of the older methods over into the more modern ways, and charges will be made with due regard to the individual case.

On new work it is advisable to turn over the entire supervision and obtain the whole of the data from the same source.

The results then will depend on the Engineer alone, and in that event he is perfectly willing to assume the whole responsibility.

No commissions can be given to other Engineers, or any division of the regular fee, and the price is the same to everybody.

The writer has probably done as much work in the past year on this one subject as all the other engineering firms collectively, who are only now and then taking it up along with their other numerous chemical installations.

Frequently apparatus designed expecially for Phenol work is also suitable for other chemical processes, such as a proper sulphonation kettle also being suitable for a nitrating kettle, carbolic stills suitable also for many other purposes, caustic soda autoclaves also adaptable to other autoclave use, and so prices have been placed on some of the drawings shown in this pamphlet in case they are desired separately.

The prices named include complete details for every part, full information relative to the operation, names of various makers who are fitted to build the work, with their prices on both the apparatus and the necessary patterns.

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