and he notes - With the exception of steel mill refractory operations, most "Producer Gas" companies (as the process was known here in the North East) supplied coke to local coal distributors for home use, mainly due to the low quality of the coke produced.
We had a Producer Gas works in my home town when I was a kid which ran continuously. Each time the chamber was emptied, there would be a shot of flame from the oven vent. The red hot coke would then be quenched and stored. The gas (of course) would be stored in steel tanks which could rise and fall with the amount of gas stored. The coke was a desirable home and factory fuel as it burned clean with almost no ash. I can recall the hospitals in town advertising that they burned only 'clean' fuel - but that was before oil took over! It was an interesting process and I did a paper and small scale demonstration of the process as a high school project - got an 'A' as I recall... Raleigh in about to be stormy Maine. At 08:03 AM 2/1/2008, Furmanak, Stan wrote: >Don- > >Early gas plants coverted coal to coke generating gas as the primary >product and coke as a byproduct.. "Coal gas", as it was called, >fueled streetlights, homes and industries. The coke, transported in >open hoppers, was sold to steel mills. > >See ><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gas_Works_Park_03.jpg>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gas_Works_Park_03.jpg > >for a pic of the only surviving coal gas plant in the US. See also ><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas >for an article on coal gas. > >Stan Furmanak >Annville, PA > >My questions are: > >QUESTION 1: >In the steel mill, coke is used to make steel. >In the gas plant, what do they do with the coke? >Sell it to steel mills? > >If so... what kind of car is used to transport coke from the gas >plant retort building to a >steel mill? > >QUESTION 2: >Why dont I need a storage bunker and quenching tower for my Gas Works? > >btw.... > >I have found an excellent web site about Manufactured Gas facilities at: ><http://www.hatheway.net/03_gas_plant_components.htm>http://www.hatheway.net/03_gas_plant_components.htm > >QUESTION 3: >I have found several websites about projects using the steel mill >kits to build some >impressive steel mills. ><http://s-ss1.home.mindspring.com/id7.html>http://s-ss1.home.mindspring.com/id7.html >http://www.midwestnpioneer.org/central/steelmill.html > >btw: How a Steel mill works: ><http://www.midwestnpioneer.org/central/ltv.html>http://www.midwestnpioneer.org/central/ltv.html > >I have not heard about anyone building a reallly nice gas plant area >on a model railroad. > >Have you? > >Thanks > >Don (the clueless) > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
