A gas holder or gasholder, also known as a gasometer, is a large container in which natural gas or town gas (coal gas or formerly also water gas) is stored...
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53°38′31″N 2°57′54″W / 53.642°N 2.965°W / 53.642; -2.965 Southport Gas Holder was once the tallest structure in the northern town of Southport, England...
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Avenue Holders (Also known as Greenpoint Gas Holders, Keyspan Gas Holders or Brooklyn Union Gas Holders) were a pair of 400-foot tall twin natural gas holders...
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The Albert Road gas holder in New Barnet, north London, is a disused gas holder on the site of the former New Barnet Gas Works with a capacity of 2 million...
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The Oval Gasholders (redirect from Kennington Holder Station)
The Oval Gasholders is the unofficial name given to the gas holder (gasometer) located near The Oval cricket stadium in London, England. Construction began...
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On 4 July 2012, fire broke out at a gas holder, owned by Jersey Gas, on Tunnell Street, in Saint Helier, Jersey. The Jersey Fire and Rescue Service brought...
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A gas stove is a stove that is fuelled by flammable gas such as natural gas, propane, butane, liquefied petroleum gas or syngas. Before the advent of...
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dictionary. A gasometer is a gas holder. The word gasometer may also refer to: Gasometer Oberhausen, a former gas holder converted to an exhibition space...
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Landfill gas is a mix of different gases created by the action of microorganisms within a landfill as they decompose organic waste, including for example...
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Shale gas is an unconventional natural gas that is found trapped within shale formations. Since the 1990s, a combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic...
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of structure that was used to surround an iron gas holder, also known as a gasometer, in which coal gas was stored until it was needed. There are approximately...
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local road on the estate is known as Blowick Moss Lane. The Southport gas holder on Crowland Street was the tallest building on the Southport skyline,...
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Town Gas Natural Gas Remaining gas holder from the New Works. Embankment on the former Great Bridge line where it crossed the Ridgacre canal. This gas holder...
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the largest gas holder in the U.S. west of Chicago.: 84 In 1896, the Edison Light and Power Company merged with the San Francisco Gas Light Company to...
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Vienna Gasometers (category Gas holders)
house gas holders, also known as gasometers, each with a storage capacity of 90,000 cubic meters (3 million cu. ft.). After the transition from town gas to...
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plant was adapted to produce gas from oil in the 1960s. Nothing remains of any of the gas holders; the last gas holder, built in 1886, was dismantled...
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Ziegenberg, is a spherical gas holder, or gasometer, which is protected by law as a monument. It is one of the oldest spherical gas holders still preserved. Another...
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burn 1.33 miles (2.14 km) from ground zero at Hiroshima, the paint on a gas holder was scorched and rendered lighter than it originally was by the thermal...
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Launceston Gasworks (redirect from Launceston Gas Works)
of gas to the City of Launceston before the importation of LPG in the 1970s. The gasworks produced gas by heating coal and siphoning off the gas that...
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was nicknamed Gasómetro due to its exterior facade that reminded of a gas holder, very common at the time. It has a capacity of 75,000 spectators, being...
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contractor to cut the holder bottle into 40-foot (12 m) sections. TriState was later tasked with stripping the coating at the gas holder site despite employee...
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2020. "Provan gas holders need a creative solution for their future". The Evening Times. 6 April 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2021. "Provan gas works site to...
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the name Awakenings arose. The cradle of Awakenings is located in the Gas holder of the Westergasfabriek, in the Westerpark in Amsterdam with its famous...
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McMaster University, Holder joined Enbridge in 1992. Holder was president of gas distribution at Enbridge from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, Holder became the executive...
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Coal gasification (category Industrial gases)
storage, especially the waterless gas holder, and distribution with the advent of 2–4 inch steel pipes to convey gas at up to 50 psi (340 kPa) as feeder...
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tanks causes vaporisation of the LNG. This boil-off gas is routed to a boil-off gas holder. Gas may be returned to an unloading ship to make up the vapor...
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Gas metal arc welding (GMAW), sometimes referred to by its subtypes metal inert gas (MIG) and metal active gas (MAG) is a welding process in which an electric...
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Gasometer Oberhausen (category Gas holders)
The Gasometer Oberhausen is a former gas holder in Oberhausen, Germany, which has been converted into an exhibition space. It has hosted several large...
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and a 480,000 cubic feet (14,000 m3) gas holder. In 1881, a second retort house was built. In 1878 no. 2 holder was built with a capacity of 1,130,000...
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