Talk:Ignacy Łukasiewicz
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[edit] Kerosene Lamp
I'm not certain how Ignacy Łukasiewicz can be said to have invented the kerosene lamp in 1853, as Abraham Gesner founded his Kerosene Gaslight Company in 1850 and installed kerosene lights on the streets of Halifax, Nova Scotia that year. Perhaps Łukasiewicz invented an improvement on the kerosene lamp (wick lamp?) - any ideas? Geoff NoNick 18:46, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
- I guess the difference is that what Gesner called a kerosene was in fact a coal oil, while Łukasiewicz's invention was a proper petroleum-made kerosene, much like the one we use today. There also might be a problem in terminology: in Polish nobody would call a coal oil kerosene, as the term (nafta in Polish) is reserved for oil products (much like in modern English). And the first man to use such fuel in America was, AFAIK, James Miller Williams, some half a decade after Łukasiewicz. //Halibutt 20:19, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
- My understanding is that the hydrocarbon chains that Gesner distilled from coal/shale/albertite/etc are identical to those obtained from the low-temperature distillation of oil. Gesner used (and invented) the term kerosene to describe what he refined, though the term coal oil stuck for what is in effect an identical product to that obtained from crude oil and commonly called kerosene. I suspect that the lamp Gesner used was a very simple wick and oil lamp (similar to those used for centuries to burn whale oil), but that Łukasiewicz somehow improved the product for kerosene applications. Does anyone have any background in this field? Geoff NoNick 21:31, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] World's First refinery?
The citation I added has just been removed. According to Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia By Alison Fleig Frank, page 58, top paragraph, it states: "Lukasiewicz quickly realized that the real profit lay in refining oil and worked with Moritz Baron Brunicki and Eugen Zielinski to build a refinery in Kleczany. After leasing a pharmacy in Gorlice, through which he hoped to make his living, he built a refinery in Gorlice in 1854 and subsequently built refineries in Jaslo, Polanka, and Ulaszowice."
In previous pages the book states that a primitive refinery was heard of before that but it was not located or known who really started it. It is my understanding that Lukasiewicz built the first COMMERCIAL oil refinery in the world which produced kerosene for material building before the lamp became popular. As for his earlier refineries they were small and nobody seems to know exactly where they were all located. From what I've read it seems that they were all in the Krosno-Jaslo area which is relatively small.
Based on what this book says Kleczany should be the first refinery preceding any other existing refinery in the world by at least two years. The University of Warsaw however says Ulaszowice was the first in 1956. If anyone has any more detailed information I'd appreciate it if it was discussed here. JRWalko 15:38, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
