Turbine Hall Equipment

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A soot blower system panel in a corner of the Turbine Hall, pipework rusted beside it. Soot blowers cleaned deposits from boiler tube surfaces while the station was running, maintaining heat transfer in the Babcock and Wilcox boilers. The system operated from start until the 1983 shutdown.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Turbine Hall Equipment
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-082
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 3s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 21 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Equipment in the turbine hall at White Bay Power Station includes the condenser waterbox valves, lube oil coolers, and auxiliary pumps arranged in the floor-level spaces between the turbine pedestals. A lube oil cooler shell is visible under the turbine deck, its flanged inlet and outlet headers connecting to the main oil circuit. The bearing drain pipes run from each turbine bearing housing down to the oil drain tank at the basement level. An auxiliary circulating water pump sits on a separate plinth with its motor mounted end-on. Pipework runs in multiple diameters alongside the turbine base frames, each line identified by colour coding on the lagging tape. Overhead travelling crane hooks are visible above the turbine casing level.

The auxiliary equipment in the turbine hall at White Bay Power Station supported the main Parsons turbines that generated the station's output. Lube oil cooling was essential to protect the turbine rotor bearings from overheating at running speeds. The Parsons turbines installed during the B Station (1923 to 1928) and 1950s expansions ran at high speed and required a continuous, filtered lube oil supply to maintain bearing film thickness. White Bay's turbine plant reached a maximum output of 186 MW across the C Station phase. The station ran from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983. After the 1990s decontamination the turbine hall retained substantial surviving equipment, recognised in the April 1999 heritage listing.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A soot blower control panel sits against the brick wall of White Bay's turbine hall, its steel casing grey with grime, graffiti scratched across the doors. To the left, a row of gate valves rises from the floor on heavy iron pipework. Rust colours the metal in deep orange and brown. The ground is black with decades of coal dust and fallen debris. Pale light filters through steel-framed windows two storeys above.

Brett Patman

The series

White Bay Power Station

2015–2018 · 124 photographs

Bricklayers laid 3.7 million bricks at White Bay across three and a quarter years of Phase 1 construction, on Wanngal Country at the western edge of Rozelle. The New South Wales Government Railways ran the build through its own Construction Department. By 3 July 1913, boilers and alternators were running before the buildings that housed them were complete.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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