While this era ended a while ago, this is really astounding in it's finality. I spent many days exploring this facility as it neared completion, and then again later, working on it's automation systems. The two BOP vessels made 370 ton heats of steel on a schedule of about 35 minutes when things were running well. The 4 strand continuous slab caster would convert those heats into about 28 slabs. The overhead cranes were rated at 400 tons and that wasn't enough, they had to be increased to a 450 ton rating. There were three scales on the charging floor that were rated for 999,000 lbs. The scrap boxes that went onto those scales weighed about 150,000 lbs each when empty. Up top was an array of bins that held the raw materials that got added to the scrap and hotmetal from the blast furnace. Out next to Rt.2, was a scrubber system to capture the dirt that came out the top. That system, like a carpet sweaper, had a giant bag and two motors...each 3500 Horse Power. The Basic Oxygen Furnace process requires that Oxygen be blown into the vessel. The lances for that purpose were suspended from cranes and the flow was carefully metered in "units" that consisted of 100,000 cubic feet of Oxygen and if memory serves me, it required about 280 units per heat. Following were the Trim Station and a CAS-OB that did the laddle metallurgy to prepare for the casting process. The first day that I arrived to do work on the automation, I was ushered into the managers office. He explained in simple terms that each heat had about $750,000 of materials added to it and 35 minutes later, it was worth about $2M. His parting shot was that if I screwed anything up that it would be a waste of time to come to work the next day! A sobering experience that was, but not nearly as much as seeing this video, as a large piece of my life's work winds up as just so much dust and twisted metal...Sad indeed!
The demo plan was a bust. If you watch the blasts, even in slow motion, it is clear that the delay between charges is too short to permit time for one to dissipate slightly before the next one occurs. So the effect was a sustained pressure wave that pounded the the walls of houses. The lawyers will explain to them in effective terms!
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While this era ended a while ago, this is really astounding in it's finality. I spent many days exploring this facility as it neared completion, and then again later, working on it's automation systems. The two BOP vessels made 370 ton heats of steel on a schedule of about 35 minutes when things were running well. The 4 strand continuous slab caster would convert those heats into about 28 slabs. The overhead cranes were rated at 400 tons and that wasn't enough, they had to be increased to a 450 ton rating. There were three scales on the charging floor that were rated for 999,000 lbs. The scrap boxes that went onto those scales weighed about 150,000 lbs each when empty. Up top was an array of bins that held the raw materials that got added to the scrap and hotmetal from the blast furnace. Out next to Rt.2, was a scrubber system to capture the dirt that came out the top. That system, like a carpet sweaper, had a giant bag and two motors...each 3500 Horse Power.
The Basic Oxygen Furnace process requires that Oxygen be blown into the vessel. The lances for that purpose were suspended from cranes and the flow was carefully metered in "units" that consisted of 100,000 cubic feet of Oxygen and if memory serves me, it required about 280 units per heat. Following were the Trim Station and a CAS-OB that did the laddle metallurgy to prepare for the casting process.
The first day that I arrived to do work on the automation, I was ushered into the managers office. He explained in simple terms that each heat had about $750,000 of materials added to it and 35 minutes later, it was worth about $2M. His parting shot was that if I screwed anything up that it would be a waste of time to come to work the next day! A sobering experience that was, but not nearly as much as seeing this video, as a large piece of my life's work winds up as just so much dust and twisted metal...Sad indeed!
Thank you for the comment Robert! That's a great story.
Something tells me that the houses/vehicles/people on Weir Avenue were not supposed to end up like that.
The demo plan was a bust. If you watch the blasts, even in slow motion, it is clear that the delay between charges is too short to permit time for one to dissipate slightly before the next one occurs. So the effect was a sustained pressure wave that pounded the the walls of houses. The lawyers will explain to them in effective terms!
Watch the people run.
Who has to pay for the neighborhood clean up? The two people running back into their houses now have been exposed to asbestos?
I didn't see the two people standing in their yard the first time. Wow!
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like the twin towers folks!