White-Hot Coke Being Processed at United States Steel Corporation's Clairton, Pa.
Description:
Caption on back reads, 'Coke Plants, White-hot coke being pushed from a by-product coke oven at United States Steel Corporation's Clairton, Pa. Works. The car into which the coke is being pushed goes to a quenching tower where it is cooled. Located in the great Pittsburgh steel-producing area, the Clairton by-product coke plant is one of the largest in te world, with a battery of more than 1,500 coke ovens, and has a daily consumption capacity of 30,000 tons of coal. Undated photo courtesy U.S. Steel.; Stamp: Bituminous Coal Institute, 320 Southern Bldg. Washington 5, D.C.
Produced at Mountaineer Carbon Company, high purity electrode carbon is being used for anode or for graphitized electrodes. The plant was designed by Ford, Bacon and Davis, Inc using process data delivered by Petrocarb Equipment Co., Inc. and the Consolidation Coal Company. The Mountaineer Carbon Company was formed in 1956. The raw material-coke was recieved from Sohio's and other refineries and also was present at the plant's site (green petrolum coke).
Coke Battery, U.S. Steel's National Tube Division, Lorain, Ohio
Date:
1952/09
Description:
Caption on back reads 'Coke Ovens, Steam rises from the quenching tower of the new by-product coke battery at the Lorain, Ohio, works of U.S. Steel's National Tube Division. Coke production has been doubled with the instalation of three new batteries of 59 ovens each. Other improvements at Lorain include enlargment and installation of coal and coke handling facilities, numerous changes in the equipment for recovery of coal chemicals, and a coal and coke laboratory. Photo from U.S. Steel Corp., and copy negative September 1952.'
Stamp: This photograph is the property of the Dow Chemical Company. It may be published or distributed only with permission from the: Public Relations Dept. The Dow Chemical Co. Midland, Michigan; Pencil: 5243536.
