Photo - ammonia compressors.

code: LVSAV2019.016

Collection code:
LVSAV2019.016
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Photographs
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Description

B&W negative copied in 1990 from official albums then held at Grangemouth refinery.

The photograph shows a row of electrically-driven machinery, presumably ammonia compressors. Ammonia was used as the cooling medium for the refrigeration plant used in the processing of wax. Heavy oil would be chilled, causing wax flakes to form which were then mechanically removed. This view is probably of Pumpherston refinery.

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