Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 06, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1958 Page: 3 of 4
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to be installed soon arc shown, one at the left, the
other at the right being sand blasted. The unit is
being built in an area sufficient for future expansion.
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Specialty Fractionating unit. Two of the furnaces
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Two Fires Over Weekend, Both In
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urday when a 4-inch tube rup-
tured inside a furnace at the Clay
Treater unit located south of the
NDU. The furnace supplies heal
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Two fires, neither of which
caused any great amount of dam-
age, were reported in the refinery
over the past weekend. One oc-
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the affair was presentation of
gifts lo outgoing President John
Leslie, who received a golf bag,
golf shoes and luggage.
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Rod, Reel, Gun Club
Needs Help Tomorrow
The Bayshore Rod, Keel and
Gun Club is calling for volun-
leers tomorrow to help clean up
their recently acquired building
and to do some carpentry work.
The club purchased the old bowl-
ing lane building located on the
corner of Minnesota and Okla-
homa streets in Baytown, where
volunteers should report as early
as possible tomorrow.
Members plan to hold open
house on Tuesday, December 16.
Golfing equipment and luggage was presented John Leslie, outgoing
president of the Humble Club, at the club’s annual directors banquet
held last Saturday night. From left above are Ted Kloesel, club vice-
president; Jerry Raney, director; Leslie, and A. J. Wotipka, secretary.
tank cars. The small samples are
usually produced in laboratory
or pilot unit equipment, while
large samples have been pro-
duced on regular plant equip-
ment, such as the NFU. How-
ever, samples of about one tank
car size cannot be produced eco-
nomically on either laboratory or
commercial size equipment.
The Specialty Fractionating
unit is to fill the gap between
the laboratory and plant sized
equipment, thus placing Humble
in a better position to obtain
markets for new chemicals.
The site, east of SO, Plant
No. 2, will afford ample area for
future additions of more semi-
commercial equipment such as
reactors, extractors, and other
equipment that may be used to
synthesize and separate various
petrochemicals.
The Specialty Fractionating
unit is scheduled for completion
in May, 1959.
v A. S. Repp, left, Pipe, and Bill Davis, Boilermakers, hold the four-
J D inch furnace tube that ruptured causing a fire at the Clay Treater
unit last Saturday afternoon. The furnace, in the background, was
being repaired last Monday when this picture was made. It was back
pared for furnaces this week.
Also being installed are four
feed and four product tanks each
with a capacity of 400 barrels.
Major equipment will consist of
four fractionating towers (each
112 feet high, two of them are
two feet in diameter and two are
three feet in diameter) ; ex-
changers, pumps, and two fur-
naces.
The unit will be used to pro-
n a duce semi-commercial quantities
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tillation of refinery or pilot unit
streams.
Potential customers often re-
Quest Humble to furnish samples
of new petrochemicals ranging
in size from one gallon to several
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further processing at Column 7
of the NKU.
The second and smaller fire
occurred about 2 p.m., Sunday
in the Ethylene section of CLEU
No. 3 when a lube carrying
natural gas split inside a drier
regeneration gas heater. Nobody
was injured at either unit.
The fire at the CTU was ex-
tinguished within 20 minutes
after the tube burst spewing
xylenes down into the burners at
the bottom of the furnace. The
alert operating staff quickly shut
down a charge pump at the south
end of the unit and closed an
emergency valve to block off a
reactor from the furnace. This
slopped the flow of oil and the
fire, well on its way to burning
itself out, was soon completely
extinguished with waler.
While the furnace was down,
other tubes were being replaced
early this week, as well as some
valves and wiring.
The CLEU No. 3 fire that
broke out at 2 p.m., Sunday was
also quickly extinguished by an
alert operating staff which iso-
lated the furnace by culling off
the flow of gas.
As this section of CLEU 3 is
scheduled to come down for turn-
around in December, temporary
repairs were made to l he heater
and it was back in service by
10:30 p.m. Monday.
Construction is progressing
on the refinery’s new Spe-
cialty Fractionating unit
located east of SO, Plant
No. 2.
Foundations were being pre-
... if you are traveling over
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were belter than yours are
now if you fail to dodge at
the right time on the highway.
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Humble club ballots were
mailed to members early this
week for election of 15 new club
directors to serve two-year terms.
The ballots were mailed by this
year’s directors. Members are to
vote on the candidate or candi-
dates of their choice for their
respective departments, and re-
turn their ballots by company
mail to Club Secretary A. J.
Wotipka not later than next Mon-
day, November 24.
Wotipka points out that
members who receive ballots late
should go ahead and mark them
and mail them as soon as pos-
sible.
The new directors will meet
with holdover and outgoing di-
rectors at the December 10 direc-
tors meeting, at which officers
and committee chairmen for next
year will be elected from the
club’s 36 directors for 1959.
Nearly 75 Humble Club
officers and directors and their
wives and other guests attended
this year’s annual director’s ban-
quet, held at San Jacinto Inn last
Saturday night. A highlight of
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Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 06, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1958, newspaper, November 21, 1958; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417685/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.