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Publication Account
Date 1904
Event ID 1022031
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022031
'The residual products works, which have been built and equipped to del with the ammoniacal liquor and tar from the gas-works, are rovided with ample storage accommodation.
A 'Scott' vacuum plant foe the manufacture of sulphate of ammonia, has been laid down. This plant is in two units, each capable of making nine tons of sulphate pre day.
Five tar stills, with condensers, &c., have been erected, but the works have been designed so that this number can be extended to twenty. The various fractions of the distillates are run into receivers, from which they will be pumped to the refining plant for the manufacture of benzole, naptha, carbolic acid, &c.
The bezole and carbolic acid plant is in course of erection.
Extensive pitch ponds and railway sidings have been provided, also convenient offices and laboratories.'
Corporation of Glasgow Gas Department, 1904
