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Report - BOCM Unitrition Olympia Mills Selby November 2010

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Tassadar

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Visited with Tcake and The Monk

History

his is a view of the BOCM Pauls factory at Selby, next to the Selby-York railway line which bisects the BOCM site.

BOCM stands for 'British Oil and Cake Mills' and dates back to the early years of the 20th century, when it was known as the 'Olympia Mills' at this location.

The extraction of vegetable oils from seed and grain to make animal feeds has been a prime manufacturing process at this site and is carried out by Unitrition International, a subsidiary company of BOCM Pauls. The main process used is solvent extraction using hexane which is then recovered by distillation. The distillation condensers are cooled by groundwater pumped from the Sherwood Sandstone aquifer at a depth of about 60 metres. In the past, over-abstraction of groundwater has caused compaction of the overlying Drift sediments with subsequent ground subsidence and deformation.

Started in the saw mill and outlying huts

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Dials and gauges bit of a feature in this place
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next in to the immense power rooms and extracting plant

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then a tour across the active side

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...also had a close encounter of the hi-viz variety , however he dint spot us we did wonder what the flock he was doing there

Thanks for looking,
 
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