DWORY CHEMICAL COMBINE NEAR OSWIECIM

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 9, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY '
INFORMATION . REPORT
This is UNEVALUATED
Information
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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Dwory Chemical Combine near Oswiecim
This matmlal contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the man-
lag of the Suplonage Laws. Title 18. U.B.C. Seas. 793
and 791, the tranamlellon or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited,
by law.
DATE DISTR. 9 February 1955
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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Dwory Chemical Combine.
1. The Dwory Chemical Combine near Oswiecim employs 18,000 workers. Of this.number, 9,000
are employed in the chemical plant; 8,500'are employed in the construction enterprise;
and 500 are employed in the Chemical Synthesis Institute. There are three shifts:
2300 to 0700; 0700 to 1500; and 1500 to 2300. 25X1
2. The. following are'the.head personnel of.the plant:
a.
General Director:
Chemical Engineer Waclaw Sobie
ranski
M.A.
,
b.
Director of Admin-
istration and
Trade : Stanislaw Warchal,
co
Director for
Investments
(Constructions) : Engineer Pawel Szper..
d.
Director of
Production Chemical.Engineer Franciszek Go
rka
M.A.
,
e.
Manager of Plant
W-4 :
Chem
Engineer Franciszek Ga
jewski
M
A
,
.
.
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f. Deputy for Head
o' Personnel : Robaszkiewicz (fnu).
3. The combine is guarded by a KBW (Internal Security Guard) detachment and an Industrial
Guard detachment.
4. The housing settlement is loc^+.Pd between the chemical works and.the town of Oswiecim.
At present there are acconPloc'ations for some 10,000 employees and workers, but building
work continues.
5. Electric power is supplied by the works' own plant ( capacity not known). In c se of
emergency, electric current may be drawn from a high-tension line from Laziska orne
(approximately five kilometers southwest of Mikolow, Silesia).
6. 'The main departments of the combine are:
Oswiecim Chemical Works under construction (Zaklady Chemiczne Oswiecim w
-.ZChO)
b. Chemical Oynthesis Institute (Instytut Syntezy Chemicznej -ISCh)
c. Construction Enterprise of the Chemical Works (Przedsiebiorstwo Budowy Zakladow
Chemicznych -PBZCh)
7. Up to April 1954, construction work,in accordance with investments, was carried out at
38 different sites, which were designated from I-1 to 1-38. The purposes for which
these Grere to be used
a. I-1 Production of carbide.
b. 1-3 Production of synthetic rubber.
c. 1-16 Extension of plant Wes,. (in which production of acetic acid and acetic
anhydride took place).
8. Plants designated W-1 to W-8 had been erected and were in operation in April 1954, as
follows: (Numbers correspond to those on Sketch No. 1.)
Plant Production
W-1 thetic gasoline by the Fischer-Tropsch method.
W-2 Trichlorethylene (TRT).
W-3 Polychlorideviny]. (IGELIT).
W--4 Acetic acid, acetic anhydride.
W-5 Oxygen: liquid and gas form.
W-6 Semi-coke.
W-7 Methanol.
W-8 Phenol.
also, at 9. Electric power plant.
10. Mechanical engineering workshops.
11. Vulcanization workshops (not located on sketch),
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De DegcriRtion of Plant
9. The production of acetic acid and attic anhydride was begun in January 1955?? They
were produced by employment of the gas and .mercury method, using calcium carbide (Ca02)
as raw material. Acetylene 1.ms obtainerlby the F-asification of CaC ? Acetaldehyde was
produced through-hydration of. tie..acetyljpe: C2H+ I 0 2 CH3CHO
a. In further treatment through oxidation of acetaldehyde', technically pure acetic
acid is obtained:
2CH CHOf-O2 2CH3000H
b. By dehydrating the3acetic acid through ethylene-acetate (CH3000C2M O), acetic
anhydride is obtained:
CH COOH CH CO
CH3000H CH3000C2H5O CHH COI O
10. The average monthly production at Plant W-4 is approximately 100 tons of acetic acid
and 45 tons of acetic-anhydride. This monthly target was normally achieved, with the
exception of January and February 1954, due to the severe frost in Poland. It was
anticipated that the second installation (site 1-16)-for the production of acetic acid
would be put into operation in July 1954. With the latter plant, the total production
of acetic acid would amount to approximately 250 tons per month.
11, Up to April 1954, the production of pure acetic anhydride had not been achieved, be-
cause it was not possible to separate the raw product by the distillation process.
The highest concentration of acetic anhydride which was obtained, amounted to approxi-
mately 50 percent.
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? Dwory Chemical Combine
1 rear Oswiecim SECRET-U,S.OFFICIALS ONLY SKETCH NO. la
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Sketch No. 2
2
(B-139)
Ulic
"B"
f
3
(B-131
1(B-137a) 4
Grounds ,
of Plant'W 4
Ulica "4"
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Lerxand for Sketch No. 2
1. A-132: Two-story rad brick factory building, approximately 30 x 6 m. There is only a
pump station here for raw material and the Pure product (Reinprodukt). Outside
the building there are three cylindrical shaped containers of the following di-
mensions: length 10 m., diameter 3 in., capacity 70 in. Only the front lids
(Vorderdeckel) of the containers are inside the pump station.
a. Pure aldehyde is stored here. To the left of these tanks there is a
free space for the construction of more tanks.
b. Croton-aldehyde is stored in a small container 3 x 5 m., capacity 35
., lined with copper.
c. Acetaldehyde stored in two tanks standing outside the pump station,
7 in. in diameter, 8 in. high.
2. B-139: This is the actual plant for production of acetaldehyde and consists of two
buildings:
d. Approximate 70 x 12 in., with two installations for the production of
aldehyde. e first installation was produced in the mechanical work-
shops of the combine, the second one was delivered from the USSR and
is how being erected. It is due to be put into operation in July
1954.
e. Approximately 10 x 10 in., containing only an installation for regener-
ation of used-up contact acid (catalyzer). This apparatus was also
manufactured in the mechanical workshops.
3. B-131: Factory building in two parts:
f. The southern part, built of clinkers, is approximately 20 x 8 m. The.
regeneration plant of used-up acetylene is located here.
g. The northern part, a two-story brick building approximately 20 x 8 in.,
contains laboratory, sanitary premises for plant W-4, and a fitter's
shop.
4.
B-137a: A single-story, brick building approximately 18 x 5 m. Here there is a clari-
fication plant for cleaning of waste water before it drains off into-the
river.
5.
B-137 and B-137b:
These are settling tanks (Absetzbehalter) for wastc liquid. There
is a small installation here for regeneration of mercury from the
waste liquids.
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