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Title: Mountain water unit at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Water flows 40,000 gallons a minute in this Mountain Unit to supply the raw water needs and to operate the closed tube scrubbing process for purifying gases in the making of ammonia by high pressure synthesis at the DuPont Company's Belle, WV Works. Water loaded with impurities picked up from the gases in the scrubbing process is pumped to the hilltop, a rise of 700 feet, is there aerated and then descends by gravity, circulating through a system of 36 inch mains, 2000 feet long. Coal is the...
Show moreWater flows 40,000 gallons a minute in this Mountain Unit to supply the raw water needs and to operate the closed tube scrubbing process for purifying gases in the making of ammonia by high pressure synthesis at the DuPont Company's Belle, WV Works. Water loaded with impurities picked up from the gases in the scrubbing process is pumped to the hilltop, a rise of 700 feet, is there aerated and then descends by gravity, circulating through a system of 36 inch mains, 2000 feet long. Coal is the main raw materials used at Belle. Air and water are two others. Ammonia and the alcohols are in turn the raw materials for a wide variety of products made at belle and by other industrial producers. These include nylon intermediates from which nylon for textiles and plastics are produced; urea, for fertilizers, cattle feeds, medicinals, adhesives and plastics; nitric acid ; formaldehyde; ethylene glycol; methyl methacrylates for Lucite acrylic resin plastics; Mycoban mold inhibitor; and many others.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0476
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Crude methyl methacrylate polymer ready to go into the dryers
Date(s): 1938-01
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Akron Studios (photographer)
Description: Crude methyl methacrylate polymer, the base for Lucite plastic manufactured by E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company, ready to go into the dryers. The picture was taken at the Company's Belle, West Virginia plant.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_2415
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Original plant site before construction of Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1925-12-12
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: View of original plant site taken from mountain side (just below-const. of present main office) before any construction work was started. Buildings in picture are old Charleston Chemical Company buildings.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0360B
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Battery of coke ovens at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1920/1929, 1920, 1929
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Battery of coke ovens used at the Belle WV plant of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0365
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1952
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0350
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Thylox plant at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1952-11-07
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Thylox plant used to remove hydrogen sulfide in water gas for use in the manufacture of ammonia at the Belle WV Works of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company . Ammonia is one of many chemicals made at Belle.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0478
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1958
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0330
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1930/1960, 1930, 1960
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Plant of the DuPont Company where synthetic ammonia and methanol are produced.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0380
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Gas compressor at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1952-11-07
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This machine compresses gas to 400 pounds pressure prior to removal of carbon dioxide and other impurities in the manufacture of synthetic ammonia at the Belle WV plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0498
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: 50,000 gallon alcohol tanks at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1947-04
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: 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 the tanks, center, is Frank Anerson of the Belle Works Maintenance Division.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0342
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Filling cans with 'Zerone' anti-rust anti-freeze
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Filling cans with 'Zerone' anti-rust anti-freeze for automobile radiators at the Belle, West Virginia plant of DuPont.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3673
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1950-03
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0321
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1948
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Fairchild Aerial Surveys, inc. (photographer)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0351
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: First scrubber at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1928
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Erection of first scrubber in 1928 at A. Plant. It operates on 450# pressure.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0357B
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Crystal urea being conveyed to dryers
Date(s): 1952-11-07
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Conveyor showing crystal urea, a product of the Belle, West Virginia plant on its way to the dryers. Crystal urea is an important material in the plastics industry , among others.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1847
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Thylox absorbers and scrubbers at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1930/1939, 1930, 1939
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Thylox absorbers and scrubbers cleanse and purify gases in an important step in the making of ammonia by high pressure synthesis at the DuPont Company's Belle WV Works. Coal is the main raw material used at Belle. Other products of the plant include nylon intermediates for nylon textiles and plastics; urea, for fertilizers, cattle feeds, medicinals, adhesives and plastics; formaldehyde; ethylene glycol; methyl methacrylates for Lucite acrylic resin plastics and Mycoban mold inhibitors.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0477
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1958
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0340B
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1933
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0356
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Nylon production at Belle Works in West Virginia
Date(s): 1952-10-01
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Nylon intermediates are made at the Belle Plant
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1229
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Charging machine for water gas generator at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1952-01
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Charging machine for water gas generator in which coke is heated and through which air and steam are blown to produce a crude mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide at the Belle WV plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company. This is one of the processes in the manufacture of synthetic ammonia and synthetic alcohol.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0489
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Benzol plant at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1952-10-01
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Benzol plant at the Belle WV Works of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Benzol is used in the manufacture of chemicals employed in the production of nylon. The Belle Works also buys large quantities of benzene for nylon chemicals manufacture.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0364
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Generator house at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1952-11-07
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Generator house for the production of water gas used in the manufacture of ammonia, one of the many products of the Belle WV plant of E.I. du Pont Nemours & Company .
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0479
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1950
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0352
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1953
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0348
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Gas compressors at Belle, West Virginia, works
Date(s): 1950-10-07
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Fifteen specifically engineered hyper compressors like this one take gas previously compressed to 450 pounds per square inch and building the pressure up to 12,000 pounds per square inch at the Belle WV plant of the DuPont Company Polychemicals Department. At this plant, high pressure synthesis produces a wide variety of basic industrial chemicals from the elements of coal, air and water.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_0502
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

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