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Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the fan wheel of the centrifugal fan viewed through the outlet duct. This fan supplied air to the launcher tunnels provided by this rotating "spindle" which generated pressure, drawing outside air into itself and expelling it under pressure at around 28,000 cubic feet per minute. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - elev-motor-et resize
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Equipment Terminal #1, level III, Lowry 724-C. Looking at the interior of the personnel elevator car. Taken: October 22, 2000 Source: myself - elevator-shaft-no.-2-et resize
Equipment Terminal #1, elevator shaft, Lowry 724-C. Looking down elevator shaft from level II into level I. Underfloor area of bottom level contains dark red water with a crust floating on the surface. Taken: October 22, 2000 Source: myself - entrance-no-3-et resize
Equipment Terminal #1, personnel entrance, level III, Lowry 724-C. Looking through entrance into level III. Taken: October 22, 2000 Source: myself - fecebgone-et resize
Equipment terminal level I, Lowry 724-C. Sewage ejector on lowest level. Taken: circa September 2003 Source: myself - filtration-10-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing indicators and controls for the pneumatic portion of the air filtration facility. These boxes would monitor and maintain pressure and humidity in the air system. Radiation levels were also monitored in this area. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-11-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the access door leading to the pre-filtered side of the air handling system where outside air entered through air ducts to have any dust and particulate sifted out by centrifugal means in cyclonic dust separators on the other side. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-12-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C looking down the tunnel toward the tunnel junction that supplied air to launcher area #1 (below the metal grating by the pipes). Directly behind the viewer in this photo is the air facility fan that moved the air out to the launcher tunnels. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-13-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the cyclonic dust separators viewed from below where all the dust settled out into a series of hoppers for removal. As air traveled through these separators, it would spiral around inside these tubes and settle out through the bottom as air moved through. This area is below the floor level where the fan is located. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-14-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the collection hoppers for the cyclonic dust separators. This area is below the floor level where the fan is located and is accessed by a ladder via an access hatch in the floor. It appears that collection bags or an auger system was used to remove the dust, but that equipment has itself been removed from the hoppers. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-15-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the cyclonic dust separators viewed from above where the air exited the separators through the tops of the many separation tubes. As air traveled through these separators, it would spiral around inside these tubes allowing dust to settle out through the bottom as air moved through. This area leads directly to the centrifugal fan which is just behind the camera in this view, separated by a partition wall. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-16-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the cyclonic dust separators viewed from above where the air exited the separators through the tops of the many separation tubes. As air traveled through these separators, it would spiral around inside these tubes allowing dust to settle out through the bottom as air moved through. This area leads directly to the centrifugal fan which is separated by a partition wall. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-17-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the access hatch and ladder to the lower level which allowed maintenance and removal of collected dust from the cyclonic dust separators. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-18-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing one of the 4 48" blast valves that allowed air to enter the filtration system through a series of dampers on the right of this photo. Air entered these dampers and passed through an array of cyclonic dust separators before being forced out to the launcher tunnels by a centrifugal fan. The access hatch to the lower level can be seen open in this view. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself