Cool vid. I used to work at the USS coke plant in Fairless Works, PA. I was the Spellman so I ran all the machines. Both door machines, hot car, larry car and the pusher. Great to see it again
I always wonder when I look at these machines. There's so many components and parts. Do they need a lot of maintenance? Who does that? How do they design and build these things?
I currently work at the Clairton Coke works, sad to see all the coke plants shutting down anymore. Especially because we just shutdown 1-3 battery at the end of March
This was an amazing little coke plant. I spent several nights an the public road running along the site and took photographs. In the morning one of the managers passed by and asked me what I was doing. He invited me for a spontaneous visit and gave me an extraordinary guided tour. The staff and management were the kindest people and I wonder what they might have done after the plant was closed and demolished.
I remember coke plant (closed in 1994) in the bay of Bakar near Rijeka ,Croatia (ex Yugoslavia)....at night looking like vulcano-inferno because of monster flare 🔥🔥
I worked on Number 7 battery in Stelco Hilton works as a contractor in the mid 90s . I remember on my birthday in July 97, it was 50 C degrees topside at 0630. The lead hand said if it got any hotter we’d put in a work refusal . But he just stopped checking the temperature instead, I’m sure it got hotter, but the salt pills helped I guess
don't know why, but I really like these 2 videos of Monkton. God knows how I even found them, I had no idea at first what I was even looking at, I mean I knew what coke was and how it was made, but I just didn't understand which bit was doing what.
I love the smell of coke ovens. I spent my early years living in the shadow of the American Brake Shoe plant in Mahwah, NJ, where my grandfather worked. The smell of coke baking while I walked to school on crisp winter mornings in the mid 1970s is permanently etched in my memory. Those were great times in American history.
I ran the charge car at Allied Chemical's Ashland, KY, coke plant back in the early 70s. It was quite an experience. The coke was shipped out by rail from that facility. It was a big operation, extinct now.
you are looking down at the top of an oven battery, a giant 'building' with about 75 (looks lke) individual ovens inside. The lids are removed on top so the larry car (the big black soot stained vehicle that rides on tracks) can portion coal into the holes, and down into the ovens. it bakes inside for 18 hours in a sealed enviornment and then the coal has become coke. eventually, it is pushed out from left to right (from the viewers perspective) into a waiting quench car. as the coke is now exposed to oxygen it bursts into flames. so it is brought to the quench tower (tall building on far end, right side) where thousands of gallons of water are dumped onto it to stop the burning process.
Yes mate we used to sequential charge the ovens 1&2 pull off & seal 1&2 then back on to fill no4 pull off & seal no4, back on to fill no3 whilst leveling.
Worked USS Clairton 7-9 Battery Startup in 1984. Remember 7-9, 1-3, the big block and B battery (super battery). Thanks for the video
Cool vid. I used to work at the USS coke plant in Fairless Works, PA. I was the Spellman so I ran all the machines. Both door machines, hot car, larry car and the pusher. Great to see it again
I always wonder when I look at these machines. There's so many components and parts. Do they need a lot of maintenance? Who does that? How do they design and build these things?
Same here, trained up on all Machines, this plant closed in 2014.
I currently work at the Clairton Coke works, sad to see all the coke plants shutting down anymore. Especially because we just shutdown 1-3 battery at the end of March
This was an amazing little coke plant. I spent several nights an the public road running along the site and took photographs. In the morning one of the managers passed by and asked me what I was doing. He invited me for a spontaneous visit and gave me an extraordinary guided tour. The staff and management were the kindest people and I wonder what they might have done after the plant was closed and demolished.
I remember coke plant (closed in 1994) in the bay of Bakar near Rijeka ,Croatia (ex Yugoslavia)....at night looking like vulcano-inferno because of monster flare 🔥🔥
I worked on Number 7 battery in Stelco Hilton works as a contractor in the mid 90s . I remember on my birthday in July 97, it was 50 C degrees topside at 0630. The lead hand said if it got any hotter we’d put in a work refusal
. But he just stopped checking the temperature instead, I’m sure it got hotter, but the salt pills helped I guess
don't know why, but I really like these 2 videos of Monkton. God knows how I even found them, I had no idea at first what I was even looking at, I mean I knew what coke was and how it was made, but I just didn't understand which bit was doing what.
I love the smell of coke ovens. I spent my early years living in the shadow of the American Brake Shoe plant in Mahwah, NJ, where my grandfather worked. The smell of coke baking while I walked to school on crisp winter mornings in the mid 1970s is permanently etched in my memory. Those were great times in American history.
You didn't show an actual oven push
That’s in the other video
Flare is 🔝🔥
I ran the charge car at Allied Chemical's Ashland, KY, coke plant back in the early 70s. It was quite an experience. The coke was shipped out by rail from that facility. It was a big operation, extinct now.
This plant is extinct now. Only 2 left in the UK now.
@@gregozzy Too bad.
This was the last British independent coke plant, it was almost 140yrs. old.
What is that blue thing with a conveyer on top with a open fire burning next to it?
That oven was being "charged" with coal not "oven push"
Interesting to watch all what is going on
But our coke Oven has 2 sided a.p hole pusher side & coke side
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be nice if an explanation of whats going on. This is about as interesting as watching grass grow
you are looking down at the top of an oven battery, a giant 'building' with about 75 (looks lke) individual ovens inside. The lids are removed on top so the larry car (the big black soot stained vehicle that rides on tracks) can portion coal into the holes, and down into the ovens. it bakes inside for 18 hours in a sealed enviornment and then the coal has become coke. eventually, it is pushed out from left to right (from the viewers perspective) into a waiting quench car. as the coke is now exposed to oxygen it bursts into flames. so it is brought to the quench tower (tall building on far end, right side) where thousands of gallons of water are dumped onto it to stop the burning process.
I wish there was more emphasis on the charge car.
Cool video! When was this filmed?
2014
This coking plant shut on the 16/12/14 :-( last oven to be pushed was oven No17.
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These coke Oven have 4 charging hole ,
The ones I worked at Allied chemical had three.
Yes mate we used to sequential charge the ovens 1&2 pull off & seal 1&2 then back on to fill no4 pull off & seal no4, back on to fill no3 whilst leveling.
A.p hole one side their,
Whoever took this video, should be banned for life of ever touching a camera again.