List of Cumbria-related Topics - Industrial Processes

Industrial Processes

  • Nuclear reprocessing - at Sellafield
  • Thorp nuclear fuel reprocessing plant - part of Sellafield
  • Blast furnace - e.g. the Duddon Furnace near Broughton-in-Furness
  • Bessemer process - invented by Henry Bessemer and used at the Workington Steel Works
  • Wind power and Wind generators surrounding much of the Lake District
  • Very Low Frequency transmitters - at Anthorn and Skelton for submarine communications
  • Phosphoric acid and Sulphuric acid - once made in vast quantities at the Marchon Chemical Company plant at Whitehaven. Phosphoric acid was made by adding the manufactured sulphuric acid to Calcium phosphate rock, brought by ship from Morocco to Whitehaven harbour.

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