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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In pursuit of this dream, they spend their days living in a disused gas holder, spending as little money as possible and conning the upper classes out...
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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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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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Bromley-by-Bow gasholders (category Gas holders)
July 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2022. A zoo complex in a decommissioned gas holder whose by-products, through anaerobic digestion, cyclically support the...
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of Scotland, nicknamed Steelopolis. Its skyline was dominated by the gas holder and three cooling towers of the Ravenscraig steel plant which closed in...
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first experiments with welded gas holder construction. At the time of nationalisation in 1949, Beckton was the largest gas works in the world, capable of...
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