The Winslow mail., 1925-09-11
CITY GAS PLANT
WILL BE MODEL
FOR MANY OTHERS

different parts of the state are
awaiting the completion of the
city gas plant to make installation
of new machinery. With the equip
ment that is being installed in the
new plant, it will be a model plant
in every respect for one of it's
size, says Superintendent Bert
Steinert. Before bids were called
for on the machinery, Mr.. Steinert
made an extensive trip through the
state and inspected gas plants at
different points. The machinery
which he recommended and sue
ceeded in having ordered, was cho-
sen as a result of his observations
on the trip.
Mr.. Steinert last week received
an offer from the Glendale gas
works, of a position which would
pay him $75 more per month than
he is getting at the city gas plant,
but, when asked if he was going
to accept, he said that he would
not accept a position elsewhere at
present under any consideration, as
he had been given free rein to
construct the new gas plant ac-
cording to his own ideas and ex-
perience and that he would not
shift the responsibility of carrying
out his plans to anyone else, at
least while the plant was under
construction.
With the arrival of several cars
of machinery Saturday, practically
all of the equipment for the plant
is on the ground and the work of
installing it is progressing rapidly.
The construction foreman and
helpers who are supervising the
erection of the holder have been
on the ground several weeks, while
David M. Ward, John Beal and
Arthur Cook arrived the first of
the week to look after the install
lation of the generating set. E. A.
McGilvary, who sold the set to the
city, arrived in Winslow Wednes-
day afternoon.
Mr.. Ward built the holder in use
at the present time at the old city
plant over 20 years ago and has
been connected with gas plant con-
struction since before that time.
The city bought this holder second
hand and has used it nine years.
Mr.. Beal helped with the construc-
ton of the old gas plant
The generating set consists of
the generator, washer box, two
scrubbers, two purifiers and an oil
scrubber. Other equipment con-
ciotU nf q tYyh 1or T;rahaN>
boiler, the $4,000 gallon holder and
oil and water pumps. Two thousand
feet of six-inch main is also to be
laid to the center of town. The
digging of the trenches started this
week. The pipe will receive a coat
of special preservative paint before
being laid. Eight-inch pipe is be-
ing used throughout the plant.
Although gas in some parts of
the country is manufactured from
coal, the gas used in Winslow and
in fact in all of Arizona, is made
from crude oil. The oil is spray
ed into the generator where heat
converts it into gas. This gas.
however, could be condensed again
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temperature. To make it a per-
manent gas many of the original
properties have to be removed and
this is done in the various scrub
bers, purifiers and the washer box.
In the washer box the gas loses
much of it's tar by passing through
water. AS it goes through the
scrubbers which are filled with
damp coke on wooden trays, it.
looses lamp black. The purifiers
are filled with damp shavings
which take out other imprities as
the gas forces itself up through
them. The oil scrubber completes
the publication process by remov-
ing excess sulphur and napthalene.
From the Oil scrubber it is piped
into the holder as permanent gas
that cannot be condensed again into
oil, and is ready to be received by
the mains.
The plant is so arranged that
the lamp black and tar taken out
of the oil in the publication proc
ess can be used later as fuel to fire
the boiler and the water is used
over and over again after being
filtered.
The new plant will be run much
more economically than the old,
taking about one half the amount
of oil used for the present output,
and about $4,000 worth of coal less
per year, according to estimates of
Mr.. Steinert. The new plant has
capacity of from 10000 to $4,000
cubic feet of gas per hour, making
1000 cubic feet per nine gallons
of oil, while the maximum capacity
of the old plant is 5000 cubic feet
per hour, using 21 gallons of oil
for every 1000 cubic feet of gas.
The new boiler is made by the
Oil City people and is a return
tubular firebox boiler, 80 horse
power, and capable of carrying $50
pounds pressure. In construction
it is heavier than the average To-
| comotive boiler. The smoke stack
will be 26 inches in diameter and
IS feet high.
Robert Fenton has been awarded
| the contract of laVinp the fire brick