Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 01, No. 06, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1953 Page: 4 of 4
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be layed from the present barrel
filling stations to the mixing tanks.
31 Tanks to Get
Gunite Coating
A contract has been negotiated
for fireproofing 31 propane and
butane storage drums with gunite.
The gunite will afford increased
protection against fire and is part
of the Refinery’s continuous pro-
gram to afford maximum safety
protection for employees and to
prevent damage to property.
THE GUNITE, a cement-sand
mixture, will be applied to a depth
of 11 inches. Tests show that this
will hold the unwetted shell tem-
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for a sufficient lime to put fire
fighting equipment into operation.
This is about the temperature
that carbon steel begins to lose
strength.
In addition to protection against
fire, the gunite will protect a tank’s
surface from atmospheric corro-
sion and will help reduce the ab-
sorption of sun’s heat in summer.
It requires little maintenance.
WORK STARTS on February
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previous operations with a similar
stock in the mixers. This will re-
duce rejections and losses of off-
test oils.
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TWO VETERAN BLACKSMITHS, Hollis Brown, above
left, and J. J. Stroman, who used to shoe horses and re-tire
wagons and buggies, say that their jobs today not only keep
them busy but require much more skill and craftsmanship
than in the old days. In addition to usual requests for U-bolts,
pipe clamps, and other large and small pieces of equipment
required in the Refinery, many of the jobs coming into the
shop call for special forgings that must be made from detailed
blueprints which blacksmiths read. There are nine black-
smiths working in the shop—one of the few air-conditioned
shops in the country. Brown has been a blacksmith for 26 years
and Stroman for 18 years. The foreman is J. E. Moskowitz.
The blacksmiths have a record of more than four years with-
out a disabling injury—a commendable record when you con-
sider the type of work they perform. They attend regular
safety meetings and through their diligent efforts to observe
safe practices, have worked a total of more than 116,000 hours
without loss of lime due to disabling injuries.
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WELDER W. E. STRAWN, left, and J. W. Hubbard, center, Boilermaker i ’
helper. inspect bottoms of two of the three large flat-bottomed mixing tanks L - .
being installed at the Compound Building. D. C. Seamans, right, project engi-
neer, looks at one of the 15 older, cone-shaped tanks in back of Strawn.
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Three new 250-barrel mixing
tanks will soon be added to the
15 mixing tanks already in oper-
ation at the Compound Building.
The new tanks will help provide
adequate blending facilities to
meet the increase in demand for
lube oils.
The 15 tanks now in use are
sufficient to handle about 67
grades of oil where only simple
blending of two or three base
stocks is required. However, since
1950. when the tanks were in-
stalled, the volume of regular oils
blended and the demand for new
blend grades have increased con-
stantly to make the addition of
three new mixing tanks necessary
to keep up with demand.
Three centrifugal pumps,
scheduled for shipment from the
factory about mid-February, will
also be installed with the mixing
tanks.
In addition to the usual suction
and discharge lines required, in-
dependent displacement lines will
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For SO2 No. 2 Are
Well Underway
Materials have been ordered
and construction will be started
this fall on the expansion of SO,
Plant No. 2. The plant production
will be increased by 600 barrels
per stream day of wash oil-free
extract.
Proposed additions to the plant
include: 1) addition of a prewash
system consisting of a mixer and
a settling drum to alleviate wash-
ing tower loading; 2) addition of
a stream preheater and two SO,
condensers to increase extract
evaporator SO, removal capacity;
and 3) addition of a larger pump
and new caustic incorporator in
the BOW raffinate system.
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Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 01, No. 06, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 1953, newspaper, February 13, 1953; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417387/m1/4/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.