Sketches

Tuesday 18 February 2014

Flaming tower

Burning (chemical) waste at the DSM Chemical plant, on an early morning a few days ago. This is more or less the view from my working desk at present.

2 comments:

Michael Lukyniuk said...

It certainly does look like flames are shooting out of that tower. Its kinda scary. Reminds me of Lord of the Rings ;) Good job.

Rene Fijten said...

Thanks Michael, it was not scary at all, I see it regularly from my desk. It's a safety device, when there is a safety issue (even a small one), or when they do maintenance, they burn the contents of the reactors at very high temperatures. So risks for workers, equipment and environment are minimalised. The tower is >20 meter high, no danger at all.