Hello,
first of all, I would like to thank you all very much
for your kind and interesting replies.
Andrew Hurrell wrote:
> 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'.
>
That's interesting and confirms, the the plant was certainly
a "blast-furnace-coke-plant".
Exchanging gas between coke plant and blast furnace plant used to be
common practice in Germany too.
There is a quite famous (and still existing) blower engine house
in Dortmund Huckarde, which has been in use to compress gas
for transportation between the Hansa coke plant and the
blast furnace works in Dortmund (Westfalenhütte and Phönix works,
distance about 2km and 6km).
>
> 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.
This is still true. I have been on the site last year, and the mains
between the blast furnace section and both coke plants looked intact.
>
> 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.
I just read a book about the history of coking technology, which
states, that most coke ovens can be operated with either coke oven
gas or blast furnace gas (or even a mixture).
>
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harald Finster" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 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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>>Dr.-Ing. Harald Finster / Aachen Germany
>>http://www.finster-stahlart.de industrial history and architecture
>>http://www.astrid-aix.de gallery: watercolours and oil paintings
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Dr.-Ing. Harald Finster / Aachen Germany
http://www.finster-stahlart.de industrial history and architecture
http://www.astrid-aix.de gallery: watercolours and oil paintings
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