gas works
Coal processing facility
A gas works is a facility where gas is manufactured from coal or other materials for use as fuel or lighting.
Before natural gas pipelines became widespread, most cities had gas works that produced and distributed coal gas to homes and businesses.
The term usually appears as a singular: The old gas works has been converted to apartments.
Of a prim era
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- cokeCarbonized coal fuel
- retortQuick, cutting reply
- gasometerTank for storing gas
ironworks · furnace · boiler · smokestacks · brick · cast iron · engineer · stoker
Substances released into air
- smogSunlight-activated urban pollution
- toxinsHarmful biological substances
- sulfurYellow combustible element
- nitrogenElement seven, colorless gas
particulates · carbon monoxide · tar · effluent · contamination · remediation · brownfield · soil pollution
Victorian
Of a prim era
gasometer · ironworks · furnace · boiler · smokestacks · brick · cast iron · engineer · stoker · lamplighter
emissions
Substances released into air
- smogSunlight-activated urban pollution
- toxinsHarmful biological substances
- sulfurYellow combustible element
nitrogen · particulates · carbon monoxide · tar · effluent · contamination · remediation · brownfield · soil pollution · groundwater
methane
Simplest alkane fuel
- propaneFlammable hydrocarbon fuel
- butaneFlammable hydrocarbon gas
- distillationPurification via vaporization
cracking · refinery · pipeline · compressor · valves · gauges · tanks · reactor · catalyst · hydrocarbons
- historical lightingcandles, lamps, lanterns, gaslight, candlelight
- Industrial heritagefactory, mill, foundry, ironworks, steelworks
gas workssolar farm
Grid-scale photovoltaic installation
wind farm · hydroelectric plant · nuclear power station · geothermal plant · oil refinery
gas, gases, gassed, gassing, gassy, gaseous, work, works, worked