tarboat's photos with the keyword: silos

Hoben International is owned by Goodwin PLC and is the UK’s largest processor of ground silica flours. These silos are at their Brassington site adjacent to the former Cromford and High peak Railway opposite Harboro Rocks. Silica flours are used in a wide cross-section of applications inducing refractory products, construction products, drilling muds, glass fibre manufacture and many more applications. Products and Services within the Hoben International portfolio include silica flours, fire mortars, specialist blends concrete and grouts, non-ferrous foundry moulding plasters.

From 1972 until March 2012 the 420 MW Lynemouth power station was the main source of electricity for the nearby Alcan Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter. It was privately owned by aluminium company Rio Tinto Alcan throughout its operation until December 2013, when RWE npower took over. In January 2016 it was acquired by Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH). It has now converted to burning biomass which included the building of six of these 194ft high silos.

Road vehicle loading silos at Hope cement works.

I am uncertain as to the function of these silos in the power station sidings at Yuanbaoshan, but suspect that they are for fly ash. The closed hopper wagons alongside and under also suggest that this might be the purpose.

These three silos at Gladstone Dock in Liverpool have a combined capacity of 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets for use at Drax Power Station in Yorkshire. This terminal was completed in July 2016 with wood pellets being offloaded from vessels utilising Continuous Ship Unloaders, before being deposited into the silos via a conveyor belt system. The pellets are then loaded into block trains for transportation to the power station.

Disused municipal grain silo at Campillos in southern Spain, seen from a passing train.

Grain silos seen from a passing train at Almargen in southern Spain.

These reinforced concrete silos adjacent to the Scheldt at Tournai were originally built to hold locally produced cement. The first four were constructed in 1922 and the second four during World War II. After the cement works closed they were converted for grain storage, but are currently empty and derelict.

Road vehicle loading silos at Hope cement works.

These reinforced concrete silos adjacent to the Scheldt at Tournai were originally built to hold locally produced cement. The first four were constructed in 1922 and the second four during World War II. After the cement works closed they were converted for grain storage, but are currently empty and derelict.

Disused turntable at the Burra station on the former line from Adelaide. Rail services to Burra discontinued in 1985 and the line closed in 1988, although the rails remain in situ. The grain silos in the background remain in use with road transport.

These reinforced concrete silos adjacent to the Scheldt at Tournai were originally built to hold locally produced cement. The first four were constructed in 1922 and the second four during World War II. After the cement works closed they were converted for grain storage, but are currently empty and derelict.

Went to have a peek at a paper mill today. Great place with plenty of scope for photography. Silos and tanks here at the end of the building where the pulp is prepared from recycled paper. These are for the waste material, such as ink, from the preparation flotation process.