SMOKE NUISANCE
ONE SOURCE ELIMINATED By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, February 23. A first step toward the elimination of the smoke nuisance in Wellington has been taken by the Wellington Harbour Board by the installation of a coal pulverising plant to the fuel furnaces of its pumping station at the entrance to the Glasgow Wharf station which supplies power for all the cranes and hydraulic machinery on the waterfront. When the furnaces were hand fired a large volume of black smoke was often emitted. To-day there was only a thin white spume coming from the chimney. The Board also expects that the new plant will enable it to make a saving on fuel costs. Cheap New Zealand slack coal is used. It is fed by hand into the hopper of the pulverising mill. Passing through a threequarter inch mesh, it is powdered by beaters to a dust finer than flour. Mixed with the correct proportion of air it is propelled by fans along a pipe and into the furnace where it ignites immediately. The furnace, 15ft by 14ft by Bft, is a mass of flame. Combustion is practically complete and there is very little smoke. The plant was inspected to-day by representatives of the shipping companies, municipality, commercial community and the Railways Department.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21279, 24 February 1939, Page 6
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212SMOKE NUISANCE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21279, 24 February 1939, Page 6
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