I have a copy of the 'By-product Coking Plant' book by David G Edwards
(which came from Moore Books). The plant in question is listed as 'Normanby
Park' and dated 1912 to 1980, owned by Lysaghts until 1967. The book notes
that the ovens were fired on 'Blast furnace gas'.
It may be worth pointing out that large, tall blast furnaces need coke that
is very hard, said to be too hard to be burn on a domestic fire. It has to
be hard to support the weight of the coke & iron ore above it in the stack.
The gas given off by the blast furnace is not only very hot but also capable
of being burnt. This gas is however no where near as good as coke oven gas
(it has a lower calorific value) and this is why it was used to heat the
coke ovens, allowing the much better coal gas to be used for heating around
the works.
The current 'Scunthorpe Works' (the former Appleby Froddingham work across
town) has for a long time had a gas main running around the site. It is very
obvious from the train tours that run during the summer. A drawing I have
from around 1964 shows both blast furnace and coke oven gas mains running
into many mills.
I agree with Tony Brewis, in that the soaker and reheat furnaces were ,and
are, fire on gas. At some works, gas (I'm not sure whether this was from the
Blast Furnaces ,the Coke Ovens, or a mixture of both) was used to power
large internal combustion engines that typically powered the blast furnace
bowers.
Around Sheffield, gas from Orgreave Coking Plant (owned by the steel
industry) was piped to numerous local steel works, including Stocksbridge
Works on the other side of the district. I believe the pipeline was known as
'Dogstar'.
Regards
Andrew
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From: "Harald Finster" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:42 PM
Subject: cokeovens in Scunthorpe
> Hello,
>
> hopefully, this request from [log in to unmask]
> is not too loosely related to mining-history.
>
> Can anybody help, please?
>
> --- original request ---
>
> Do you know who owned the cokeovens at the Lysaught works at normanby
park,
> scunthorpe (although i think it was a separate site to the steel works
perhaps not)
> and what they was used for in 1967 to 1969 i am not sure if the cokeovens
was to produce Gas.
> And if the gas board owned them although i believe the Lysaught works was
owned by GKN.
> ( guest keen nettlefolds) around that time.
> i understand many cokeovens was owned by the national coal board.
> Any information would be gratefully appricated.
> I hope to hear from you and i thankyou for your reading my mail.
> With Kind Regards
> Jcoop
>
> --- end original request ---
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Harald
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