Iron Sponge Regeneration Area
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Iron Sponge Regeneration Area
Image: © Ashley Dace Taken: 3 Jun 2010
Spent iron rich chippings (or sponge) from the purifier were removed from the purifier next to this roofed area. The 'spent oxide' is dug out and spread inside this low walled, roofed enclosure where it reacts with the oxygen in the air, the iron oxide reforms and the sulphur crystallises out. This produced a rather unpleasant rotten eggs smell as there was some hydrogen sulphide still in the mix. The regenerated iron sponge was put back into the tanks until the proportion of sulphur reached about 40 percent, at which point it was processed to recover the sulphur. The sulphur rich spent oxide was shipped out in barrels to have the sulphur recovered, meanwhile the empty purifier was re-filled with fresh 'iron sponge'.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.826514
Longitude
0.846706