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[The name of John Glover (1817–1902), English plumber and chemical engineer.]
Glover († Glover's) tower: in the chamber process for the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the tower in which ‘nitrous vitriol’ from the Gay-Lussac tower is denitrated and sulphuric acid from the chambers is concentrated by being passed down through packing against an upward flow of hot sulphur dioxide and air, which undergo cooling on the way to the chambers; also ellipt.; Glover acid: the sulphuric acid formed at the bottom of the Glover tower, of a higher concentration than the chamber acid.
1871Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XXIV. 1100 A detailed description, with drawings, of ‘Glover's towers’, as used on the Tyne. 1873Chem. News 21 Mar. 135/2 There are two methods at present in use on the Tyne for the denitration of the nitro-sulphuric acid; the Glover towers, and denitration by steam. 1873J. Glover in Ibid. 28 Mar. 152/2 With a properly proportioned and worked Glover's tower none of the drawbacks..mentioned by him exists. 1896Blount & Bloxam Chem. for Engineers & Manuf. II. i. 13 The saturated acid (‘nitrous vitriol’) running out at the foot of the Gay-Lussac is pumped..to the top of the Glover. Ibid. 15 For alkali making by the Leblanc process, Glover acid is suitable. 1902Times 6 May 10/3 Though the first one was not built till 1859, and the system not adopted in Lancashire till nearly ten years later, the Glover towers are now almost universal in sulphuric acid manufactories. 1936A. M. Fairlie Sulfuric Acid Manuf. viii. 159 Most lead Glover towers of modern design have brick walls laid up in ‘acid-proof’ cement. 1962J. A. Kent Riegel's Industr. Chem. (ed. 6) iv. 71 It is the modern practice to pass all the chamber acid through the Glover and thus concentrate it to 60° Bé without expense for heat. The Glover acid is cooled in double-walled lead receiving tanks. |