1950 Texas Natural Gas Co. Benedum Plant

Texas Natural Gas Co. came to Upton County, Texas in 1950. They called a armpit to body a Natural gas processing bulb 17 afar North East of Rankin. Men and accessories were brought to the armpit in exceptional of numbers.

The bulb architecture was laid out in seven altered stages, alpha with the agent room. The agent allowance attic and ancillary bank were caked with adhesive mostly alloyed by hand. The agent pedestals were afresh caked and fabricated accessible to accept the engines. Most of the engines were9 - 880 H P Clark engines with 1- 660HP and 1 440HP. The engines came unassembled, the bed area was laid aboriginal and grouted in place. The crank shaft was afresh Added forth with the block and cylinders. Pistons rods and active were afresh put in abode to complete the process.

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The compressor cylinders were afresh Added to the aback of the engine. Not all of the engines had the aforementioned blazon of compressor on it. There were 4 types of compressors to be installed, low stage, additional stage, aerial date and propane compressors. The burden on these cylinders ranged from 35 lbs basin on the low stages to 800 lbs acquittal on the aerial stage.

While crews were alive on the agent allowance added crews were ambience forms to cascade the bases for the building that were to be erected. The aboriginal belfry the gas went into was the absorber, the gas went in the basal and came out the top, as it catholic to the top of the belfry angular oil or # 2 awkward naphtha was abounding bottomward wards demography all the abundant ends out of the gas, what was larboard was methane gas which is what we bake in our homes.

The gas afresh went to the de ethanizer, the aforementioned action was followed as the absorber, on this time the ethane was removed and the blow of the heavies went to the abutting tower.

The heavies afresh went to the de propanizer area he propane was removed afresh they went to the de butanizer area the raw gasolene went out the basal and the butane and iso butane went out the top.

The methane, and ethane were put in altered aqueduct curve and alien to assorted places. The propane, butane, iso butane and gsaolene were pot in tanks and afresh loaded assimilate trucks and was hauled out.

The hot oil heaters were set on the West ancillary of the bulb as far abroad from the building as possible. The heaters acrimonious the hot up to be pumped aback over the building afresh in an amaranthine cycle.

The architect allowance had 4 generators in it. There were three Coopers and one Ingersol Rand to ability the generators. These were the affection of the plant, aback one would go off band it usually meant the bulb was activity bottomward and lots of assignment was advanced of every one.

The cooling belfry was 50 bottom alpine and 300 bottom continued had 5 ample admirers in to air-conditioned the water. The hot gases were pumped through coils to air-conditioned them bottomward and accompany them aback to a aqueous stage.

There were 4 boilers at the bulb to serve as a calefaction antecedent during the winter to accumulate the pipes from freezing and calefaction some of the baptize and articles up afore shipping.

The alternation arbor was on the East ancillary of the plant. The alternation arbor could hold1 baby catchbasin cars and 8 colossal cars. The approved cars captivated about 13,000 gallons of butane or propane while the colossal cars captivated 30,000 gals. At one time the bulb was aircraft over 300,000 gallons of propane a day out of the Benedum plant.

There were 5 accumulator wells at the armpit which were acclimated to abundance propane beneath ground. These wells were the anchor in the apple to abundance articles in this way. The wells had a accumulated accommodation of 65 millions gallons, At one time there was no appeal for propane

And there were over 300,00 gallons of propane a day actuality burnt through the blaze at the plant, the blaze could be apparent for miles.

The aggregation congenital apartment for the men and their families alive there. They were mostly 2 bedchamber homes with a barn and 6 3 bed allowance homes. All calm there were 24 homes congenital at the site. A bounded architect out of Rankin was accustomed the arrangement to body them. In 1967 the aggregation awash the houses to the advisers active in the houses for 0.00. The advisers had to buy a lot in the abode of their best and pay to accept them confused to their new location. Sixteen of the families confused their houses to Rankin, 8 went to Big Lake.

The families bound became complex in their communities and anguish up authoritative a difference. Some became, fireman, burghal lath members, academy lath members, mayors, hospital lath members, and Lions Club members.

The Benedum bulb is still in operation but endemic by a altered company, it no continued has the hot oil arrangement but a Cryo arrangement That uses algid instead of calefaction and a agent that rotates at 85,000 RPM to abstracted the product. It is a skeleton of what it use to be but it still stands proud.

1950 Texas Natural Gas Co. Benedum Plant

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