Grangemouth

zolita1908 · Grangemouth

Has anyone any shots of the lovely Grangemouth???

james73

No. And I wouldn't want to live anywhere near that refinery.

James H

zolita1908

Neither would I but i was in awe when i seen it, never seen so much industry and smoke in one place. How do ppl live there?

cybers

glasgowken

My sis used to live within sight of that.

zolita1908

I drove through one summer morning, half four in the morning, and still the smoke plumes were there, it must be 24hrs

antsplan

wee minx

Superb

james73

Crackers antsplan.

James H

Fjord

kev

If your ever in Grangemouth its worth a trip to the visitors centre to see the displays they have on show.
The forties field is the main source of oil to the refinery and the displays show how this crude is made into all the different products..ie diesel ,petrol,aviation fuel,sulpher etc.They basicly "boil" the crude and the vapours go up those towers you see on the refinery and at different temperatures ie deisel gets seperated from crude at about 200-350 degrees.. they all seperate and go down various pipes for further processing before becoming a finished product.Most of the "smoke" that you see is actully water vapour or condensate/steam from the vast cooling water system required in the process
The display also has a vast amount of old photographs showing the refinery in its early days when it was a small place extracting oil from local shale
A company called Scottish oils owned the refinery in the twenties part of the Anglo Persian oil company which later became BP

Picture shows the furnaces that boil the oil,the distilation columns and the cooling water towers with condensate/steam everywhere

cybers

Kev the visitor centre was closed.....

Scary

Cracking pic cybers

fastnet

Wonderful pic cybers............