The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-15
GAS PLANT READY
THE FIRST OF JUNE
Utah Gas and Coke Company
EXpending in the NeighbOr-
hood of $2,500,000
NEW PLANT COVERS
NEARLY FIVE ACRES
Between 900 and 1000 Car
loads of Material Shipped
From the East.

Salt Lake City by the first OF June
will have one of the most-modern and
best-equipped gas plants in the coun-
try The plant is that of the Utah Gas
and Coke company. situated on First
South street between Ninth and Tenth
West streets. The total cost of the
plant will be in the neighborhood of
S2,500,00o when it is finished Between
900 and 1000 carloads of material were
shipped here from the East to be mold
ed into the mammoth structures that
make up the gas plant The works
will have capacity of 100000 cubic
feet every twenty-four hours.
The plant takes up a good part Of five
acres Of land. The different structures
are the retort house, condenser and
boiler house and the holder. The ma
chineTv is of the latest and there is
practically no work by hand IN the
manufacture of gas. The coal from
which the gas is made is hoisted to the
retorts by means OF machinery, endless.
chain elevators, and nearly all the 9th
er labor is performed in the same man
ner Much of the brick, about 200
feet, is a special order of 6reclay to
Insure hreproofness.
In the retort house, whore the crude
gas is manufactured, there are twelve
benches of retorts. Six of these bench
es are finished and the company would
be ready to make gas if the holder were
finished. Twelve furnaces in tins build
ing heat the coal until the gas, am
monia, sulphur and tar pass off, under
heat of 1900 degrees Fahrenheit, to
the primary condenser Much of the
tar and ammonia is deposited IN the
primary condenser. relieving the gas of
sickness that would result from the
tar not being separated from it From
the condenser the gas passes 10 the
exhausters, a powerful blower, and is
further relieved of impure qualities by
cleaning and washing processes. Then
1t goes through the tyr extractor, the
secondary condensers. the washers and
finally to the scrubber, where it is
really scrubbed by big revolving brush.
es attached to discs in tank half-full
of water.
Cleaning Processes.
In being subjected to these different
cleaning processes the gas is relieved
from all tar and ammonia and pipes
carry it to storage tanks where by the
use of mental filings and shaving the
sulphur is got rid of, The tar tanks
have capacity of about 1000 barrels.
and are sold by the company.
The coke that is left behind from
the burning of the coal is hoisted by
an elevator to height of eighty feet
snd dumped into cars for storage.
Passing from the scrubher, the gas
goes by means of pipes into three steel
purifiers, alright, then to the station
meter and from thence TO the holders
This is remarkable piece of work.
u rises TO height of 40 feet and is
l3o feet IN diameter, with a capacity of
l.l5O,O00 cubic feet. II NAV be filed
once a day. There are three lifts, the
walls being telescope, with system
Of guide wheels. From the holder. the
gas passes through governors, that reg,
ulate the pressure, into the residences
and business houses
The plant is made almost entirely of
steel, concrete and brick. There is not
enough wood in the buildings to make
good FIRE, some of the doors being
the only objects of that material,
The company within the last few
months has completed nearly seventy
miles of mains. The cost is $1,000 p
square In several cases
Much of the machinery at the new
plant is duplicated so that in case of
one machine breaking down the other
WI carry forward the work Of max.
Ing gas and there will be no delav or
etoppage.
The price of gas furnished bv Tho
Stah Gas and Coke company RANGES
from 20 cents to 90 cents tbousan5
cubic feet. the amount consumed regn.
,rtlDg the scale, which is a sliding ono