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Preview	Category	Catalogue Number	Collection	Title	Date	Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 371623		General view from NE of Settling Vats, with Continuous Process Vats (with stirrers) in foreground (28/3/96)		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 371624		Detailed view of weed stem entering the primary mill portion of the Stem Mill		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380917		View from SW in Weed Store, showing stocks of Laminaria Hyperborea, a seaweed from the Outer Hebrides and Ireland		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380918		General view from E of Stem Mill, which comprises shaking conveyors which shake off sand and shells (left), and primary and secondary mills (centre and right)		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380919		View from E in Weed Store, showing sacks of milled weed awaiting processing into alginate		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380920		View from NE of Mature Tanks, in which milled weed matures at approximately 80 degrees C for 3-4 hours, after first being mixed with hot water and alkali. There are ten operational welded-steel cylindrical tanks, the output of which is sodium alginate paste		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380921		View from SE of Slurry Area (with empty slurry tanks visible), where sodium alginate paste is mixed with 'feedback' (dilute alginate solution from an intermediate recovery process), producing slurry.		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380922		General view from SW of Settling Vats		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380923		Detailed view of Separation Unit, part of the Continuous Process		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380924		View from NE of Decant and Feedback Tank, with Settling Vats in background. The Feedback is sent to the Slurry Area to be mixed with Sodium Alginate Paste to become slurry		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380925		View of Conversion Vat No.5, in which calcium chloride is added to alginate liquor, producing Calcium Alginate Pulp		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380926		Detail of Floatation Vat No.4, in which Calcium Alginate pulp is allowed to float on the surface of the vessel and swept off by rotating paddles, after which it passes through the dejuicer		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380928		General view of Leaching Area, showing Con Vat and Dejuicer Units. In this process, the Calcium Alginate is reacted with sulphuric acid in staged additions, resulting in the removal of the calcium and the creation of the Alginic Acid		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380962		View of two of the three Stord Bartz Presses, used to increase the solids content of the Alginic Acid from 10 to 30%		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380963		View from SW of part of a row of nine Dough Mixers, manufactured by the Morton Machine Co Ltd of Wishaw, Scotland. In this process, the Alginic Acid is mixed with Sodium Carbonate to produce Sodium Alginate Dough in 400 kg batches		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380964		View of three of six Sodium Alginate drum driers, with feed hoppers in foreground. The Sodium Alginate is milled after leaving the hopper, and is then blown into the revolving drum driers, which are supplied with steam-heated hot air		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380965		View of Mill and Sifting area, showing two of the four mill/sifter units (left static, right in motion). The Sodium Alginate is milled and sifted in this process, and is subsequently bagged into sacks		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380966		Detailed view of dejuicer for Floatation Vat No.5		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380968		Leaching Area: Detailed view of Con Vat No.3, and back of Dejuicer No.2		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380969		View from NW of northern part of works, comprising buildings dating from the establishment of the factory by the Ministry of Supply during World War Two (early 1940s)		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380970	Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu	View of entrance to spillway from W, dam supplying water to works, Alginate Works, Barcaldine.		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380971		Dam (NM 97 42) supplying water to works: Detailed view of entrance to spillway from SW		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380972		View from SE of NE end of main production block, including tower-mounted cast-iron water tank		Item Level
	On-line Digital Images	SC 380985		Aerial view of Barcaldine Alginate Works looking to the South West. Distant view of the Creran Moorings Marina and the Sand and Gravel Quarry operated by J&A Gardner, also the mouth of Loch Creran and the Firth of Lorne and the sea beyond.	c. 1980	Item Level