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Greenock, 150 Lynedoch Street, Westburn Refinery

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Greenock, Westburn Refinery View from N
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Interior view of Carbonation and Recovery Basement, showing the Carbon Dioxide Gas Compressors which supplied the gas for the Carbonation Plant Saturators. The Carbon Dioxide was supplied from the flue gases from the refinery's main boilers (T&L No.: 21177/11)
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Interior view of the Acrylic and Styrene Resin Cells used for further decolourisation of the filtered Brown Liquor. Removal of colourants in this process was by ionic exchange and absorption (T&L No.: 21176/5)
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Interior view of the Recovery Process's Recovery Syrup cast-iron Storage Tanks. The Recovery Process was designed to remove excess sugar produced from the syryp run-off from the Affination Station. The recovered sugar was then returned to the beginning of the process (T&L No.: 21183/3)
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Interior view of cast-iron Recovery Syrup Storage Tanks (T&L No.: 21183/1)
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Interior view of the First and Tail Pan Crop Crystalliser drives. The crystal syrup mix was held in Crystallisers over a period of time, cooling continuing the process of re-crystallisation (T&L No.: 21176/7)
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Interior view of Fine End roof top Scalper Room, the start of the sieving and routing for the various grades of White and Industrial sugars (T&L No.: 21179/7)
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Interior view of the top of the Complex Silos, used for storing sugar for bulk customers (T&L No.: 21181/1)
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Interior view of the S.I.G. 1kg Packing Machine (T&L No.: 21185/5)
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Detailed view of the Telpher Crane, which hoisted coal from outside the Boiler House into the boiler coal hoppers (T&L No.: 21182/11)
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Interior view of top of No.1 Boiler, showing the boiler's superheater section (T&L No.: 21182/5)
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Interior view looking from Fine Centrifugal Machine floor towards Fine End (T&L No.: 21179/1)
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Detailed view of old manual telephone in Warehouse (T&L No.: 21180/1)
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Greenock, 150 Lynedoch Road, Westburn Refinery, oblique aerial view, taken from the SE.
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View from ESE of E end of N portion of factory, showing vehicle loading area (building no. 34, NS2796 7545), with Warehouse 1 behind (building no. 33, NS2794 7545), and the S portion of the factory visible to left
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Interior view of the Affination Centrifugal Machines, showing the motor drives and the Magma Supply Hopper. The machines separated the impurities coating the sugar crystal from the crystal (T&L No.: 21178/7)
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Interior view of Autofilter floor from west. Liquor from the Carbonation Saturators was routed to this station to filter out the Calcium Carbonate precipitate (T&L No.: 21176/1 )
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Interior view of the Acrylic and Styrene Resin Cells used for further decolourisation of the filtered Brown Liquor. Removal of colourants in this process was by ionic exchange and absorption (T&L No.: 21176/5)
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Interior view of front of No.2 Fine Sugar Pan (1 of 4) in the Crystallisation Building. In a similar way to the Recover Pans, the Fine Pans produced product sugars from re-crystallising the now purified main process stream from the Resin Cells. Operating under vacuum, the pans boiled at lower temperatures, thus reducing the formation of colour (T&L No.: 21175/7)
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Interior view of the S.I.G. 1kg Packing Machine (T&L No.: 21185/5)
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Interior view of the refinery Steam Accumulator, used for storing steam for the process. Visible in the foreground is the old railway siding used in the past for supplying coal to the Boiler House (T&L No.: 21178/3)
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Interior view of the Turbine Room, containing three 1,000kva Turbines, with the overhead crane in the background (T&L No.: 21181/7)
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Detailed view of old manual telephone in Warehouse (T&L No.: 21180/1)
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Greenock, 150 Lynedoch Road, Westburn Refinery, oblique aerial view, taken from the E.
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