Precipitator

Large curved corrugated metal conduits dominate the left side of the frame at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, part of the dust collection system fitted late in the station's working life to filter fine ash and particulate from the boilers. Warm late-afternoon light catches a multi-storey brick building on the right, setting it against the shadowed steel and concrete structures opposite. A concrete road runs between the two structures, a small traffic cone still positioned near the left kerb. Before the precipitators were in place, unfiltered particle matter left the chimneys and settled across Morwell, though four neighbouring power stations were doing much the same, on a considerably larger scale.

The precipitators served the boiler house. The boilers were water tube boilers specifically adapted for burning brown coal, and the Victorian Heritage Register cites them as rare survivors of their class. The boiler plant, ash handling, steel chimneys and building were supplied by Mitchell Engineering Group Ltd. of London under the 1950 contract, the same contract that covered the complex's steel chimneys, of which there were a minimum of four. Those chimneys were progressively demolished in the 2018 to 2020 program. Brett photographed the precipitators on 14 April 2017.