50,000 gallon alcohol tanks. Miscellaneous alcohol fractions. The background shows two of five process gas holders, ranging from 100,000 to 750,000 cubic feet capacity. Seen leaving the top of one of th tanks, center, is Frank Anerson of the Belle...
A battery of 30 atmosphere gas compressors in the Belle Works, for the synthesis of ammonia and related products of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company near Charleston WV in which water gas is compressed to 1,000 atmospheres. Below at the right is a...
A fine spray of sun tan oil, dispensed evenly, cleanly and quickly from an aerosol container, helps Mother Nature give you a nice deep tan without all the danger of sunburn, Its just one of many personal products available in the convenient easy to...
A new understanding of how metals wear under friction and how to reduce this problem, may come from fundamental research being carried out at DuPont's Experimental Station, one of the largest centers of research in the world. It spreads over 95...
A technician at DuPont's pipe manufacturing plant at Tulsa, Oklahoma adjusts extrusion equipment as it produces endless footage of Delrin acetal resin pipe for ultimate use by the oil and gas industry. The two inch diameter light weight, corrosive...
Adiponitrile area at DuPont's Victoria plant, ten miles south of Victoria, Texas. Butadiene and natural gas are among the raw materials used in the plant in making adiponitrile, a chemical employed at an early stage of nylon manufacture. This plant...
Aerial view of Kaiser Steel mill and new industrial area surrounding area at Fontana, CA. Image accompanied a press release by The Perrett Company, Los Angeles, CA.
Southern California's fastest growing industrial area is developing around the...
Aerial view of the benzol plant at the Bell, WV Workd of the DuPont Company. Benzol is one of the materials used here in the manufactyre of nylon intermediates for the nylon yarn and plastics produced at other DuPont plants. At the left are...
Aerial view of the Victoria Plant ten miles south of where the DuPont Company uses products of the petroleum industry, chiefly butadiene and natural gas, to manufacture a chemical knows as adiponitrile, employed in the manufacture of nylon....
At the Belle Works, DuPonts high pressure synthesis plant, one of the largest gas purification units in the world removes unwanted elements from coke gas. These 85 foot scrubbers purify carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide used in making urea, glycol...
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Barrackville #41 mine, West Virginia. Under ground stables for the mine horses. Note: the photograph has no date but information obtained from the West Virginia State Archives states that a gas explosion on March 18,...
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Sparrows Point, Maryland plant blast furnace L. The water from the gas scrubbers is clarified in two 90' diameter thickeners and passes through the coolers and processed before being reused. The iron bearing slurry...
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Sparrows Point, Maryland. L furnace cast house dust and fume control bag house. Cooling towers in foreground are for furnace gas cleaning water.
