View from NE showing scrubber
SC 766077
Description View from NE showing scrubber
Date 14/8/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 766077
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Girvan Gas Works, Gas Lane, Girvan, South Ayrshire This shows the box-shaped Livesay washer, with the scrubber beyond. Most of the tar was removed from the raw gas in a condenser, and the gas then passed through the washer to remove most of the rest of the tar before treatment in the washer. To prepare coal gas for customers the tar and ammonia were removed, and were saleable. This left hydrogen sulphide as the last unwanted impurity, which was removed in purifiers, as seen here. Girvan Gas Works closed in the mid-1970s when the town was connected to the Gas Grid. This was one of the last coal-gas works in Ayrshire, and still used hand-charged retorts in 1970. It was relatively large because of the number of summer visitors, most of whom stayed in boarding houses. The retort house had an opening to the street, allowing the operation of the works to be viewed by small boys. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/48/30
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