Chimneys and Precipitator

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 15mm · f/8.0 · 1/50 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Two red brick chimneys, 'A' and 'B', rising either side of the precipitator building at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories. 'Lurgi' lettering marks the corrugated metal structure between them, with yellow stair platforms stepping up its face and angled ductwork connecting the chimneys to the precipitators at their base. Photographed from low ground under a clear sky.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Chimneys and Precipitator
Series: Morwell Power Station
Catalogue: MPS-033
Process: Giclée
Captured: 14 April 2017
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/50 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 15 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Morwell, Victoria, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Morwell, Victoria, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Two red brick chimneys, designated 'A' and 'B', rise either side of the precipitator building at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories. 'Lurgi' lettering marks several sections of the corrugated metal structure between them, and yellow-painted stair platforms step up its face. Angled ductwork connects the chimneys to the precipitators at their base. The whole assembly is photographed from low ground under a clear sky, the brick stacks flanking the metal precipitator housing, the stairs and ducting reading as a single connected unit from this angle.

The complex had a minimum of four steel chimneys across its working life, supplied under the contract with Mitchell Engineering Group Ltd. of London, which also delivered the boiler plant, ash handling and building steel. The chimneys were taken down progressively through the demolition program that ran from November 2018 to June 2020. Brett photographed the chimneys and precipitator on 14 April 2017, in the closed complex before the demolition program began.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The Lurgi precipitators pulled ash out of the flue gas before it went up the stack. The chimneys are the landmarks you see from the highway. The precipitators are the reason the highway was mostly tolerable to live near.

Brett Patman

The series

Morwell Power Station

1949-2014 · 79 photographs

The State Electricity Commission of Victoria built Morwell as the centrepiece of its postwar plan to sever Victoria's reliance on black coal from New South Wales. Construction ran from 1949 to 1959; electricity production commenced in December 1958 and the first commercial briquettes followed in December 1959. With the demolition of Old Yallourn between 1995 and 1999, Morwell became the earliest surviving large-scale Victorian state-grid power station, registered on the Victorian Heritage Register as H2377 on 1 March 2018.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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