GAS-MAKING PLANT
Preparations For Kapuni (N.Z. Press Association/ AUCKLAND, November 1. A gas-making plant which will increase the Auckland Gas Company output by 50 per cent Is expected to be installed by October of next year. The plant, costing £200,000 and described by the chairman of the Auckland Gas Company, Mr A. Wilson, as revolutionary, will be the first of three to be installed to use natural gas from Kapuni. Before the Kapuni gas is piped to Auckland the plant will help meet the rapidly increasing demand for gas by using an oil refinery feedstock, known as virgin naphtha.
The plant can produce nearly three million cubic feet of gas a day using refinery naphtha, and four million using natural gas. The plant produces gas which is of high purity and non-poisonous. The gas is made under high pressure and can go direct on to the distribution system, thus bypassing exhausters, booster, ammonia and naphthalene washers, and oxide purifiers. There are no residual products for which markets would have to be found. The cost of manufacture will be less than the cost of producing gas from coal.
Tax-Free.—Plastic key-tops for temporary conversion of cash registers to dollar-cent operation will be exempt from sales tax.—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31206, 2 November 1966, Page 24
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