Those two large plumes of steam are from the continuous casting machines; they're the exhaust from the spray chambers. When the steel strand exits the bottom of the water-cooled mould tube, only the skin of the strand is solid - the core is still liquid. The strand has water sprayed on it from all sides to continue the cooling process and drive solidification of the strand core. All the steam generated is drawn out of the spray chamber and vented.
Was than an LTV mill years ago, then bought by Roth? Is it a rolling mill? No furnaces there except a small one? Not primary steel making is it? Thank you for the great shots!
This is the west side of what is now Cleveland Cliffs. It was J&L, or Republic, then LTV, then ISG bought them, Then Arcelor, Then Arcelor-Mittal, and now Cleveland Cliffs. The west side only has a BOF and caster in operation, it's fed iron from the 2 Blast Furnaces on the east side. The east side also has a BOF and Continuous caster. The slabs from both east and west casters are fed over to the east side to the 84" mill to get rolled into coils, from there they are either shipped raw, or head over to the Pickling line, finishing line, or Hot Dip Galv lines for further finishing.
@@CCWSig Thank you for the the thought provoking answer! I see the (east side) blast furnaces approx center screen at 0:30 about. I'm going to need to do some aerial reconnaissance on the satellite maps. So at 0:30, the two small 'stacks' to the left in the foreground, what are those there? Is that building the BOF and caster? (with the long conveyor coming up from the right) And to the right of the conveyor, is that a bag house of some kind with 7 portions? With I could go back and visit again! Thank you!
@@CuriousEarthMan The 2 stacks in the foreground you are referring are the BOF building, but those stacks are actually over the scrap yard. Those stacks are part of the CSS(Combustion suppression system) for scrubbing the air before it goes back to the environment. At 0:14 you can see a loader(bottom of the screen) loading slag from the the BOF into a truck. The large door behind him leads to the BOF vessels. I believe the left side of that building is the teaming isle, and the middle where the door is contains the BOF vessels, and to the right the scrap yard and charging areas. Also at 0:14 the building to the left with 2 stacks with steam coming out is the west side caster. The tundish is up in the top of the building, and the caster's strands run in the direction of the bottom of the screen to the top. So finished slabs come out of the building near the top of the screen. The green buildings used to be different mills, but are mostly empty of equipment now. About 7 years ago they were stuffed full of scrap metal, I don't know their current condition. At 0:28 top left of the screen, the steam stacks, that's the east side BOF and Caster. And finally Top right of the screen at 0:33 way far off in the distance the group of buildings with the 3 smoke stacks are all the East Side mills. The 3 stacks are the furnaces for hot mill for heating the slabs before running them through the mill. so in order from furthest away to closer they are Slab Yard, Hot Mill, next set of buildings is the Finishing mill/pickling line next set is the Hot Dip Galv Line(with the big red and white stripes on it), and finally the closest set of buildings are all storage. There was a EGL line in one of the buildings but it's not in use, and was slated to be removed last I heard. The building top middle screen at 0:06 is on the Power house1 for the whole plant. There's another one mixed in with the blast furnaces.
This is the same as the Great Lakes Steel plant on the river south of Detroit . Even have an EGL that is shut down to . Guess hot dip is easier . Primary steel shut down a few years ago , only part still running is the cold mill and hot dip . Wonder what NK is going to do with all of it ?
Those were the days !
Those two large plumes of steam are from the continuous casting machines; they're the exhaust from the spray chambers. When the steel strand exits the bottom of the water-cooled mould tube, only the skin of the strand is solid - the core is still liquid. The strand has water sprayed on it from all sides to continue the cooling process and drive solidification of the strand core. All the steam generated is drawn out of the spray chamber and vented.
West Side steel producing rolling strong!
Was than an LTV mill years ago, then bought by Roth? Is it a rolling mill? No furnaces there except a small one? Not primary steel making is it? Thank you for the great shots!
This is the west side of what is now Cleveland Cliffs. It was J&L, or Republic, then LTV, then ISG bought them, Then Arcelor, Then Arcelor-Mittal, and now Cleveland Cliffs. The west side only has a BOF and caster in operation, it's fed iron from the 2 Blast Furnaces on the east side. The east side also has a BOF and Continuous caster. The slabs from both east and west casters are fed over to the east side to the 84" mill to get rolled into coils, from there they are either shipped raw, or head over to the Pickling line, finishing line, or Hot Dip Galv lines for further finishing.
@@CCWSig Thank you for the the thought provoking answer! I see the (east side) blast furnaces approx center screen at 0:30 about. I'm going to need to do some aerial reconnaissance on the satellite maps. So at 0:30, the two small 'stacks' to the left in the foreground, what are those there? Is that building the BOF and caster? (with the long conveyor coming up from the right) And to the right of the conveyor, is that a bag house of some kind with 7 portions? With I could go back and visit again! Thank you!
@@CuriousEarthMan The 2 stacks in the foreground you are referring are the BOF building, but those stacks are actually over the scrap yard. Those stacks are part of the CSS(Combustion suppression system) for scrubbing the air before it goes back to the environment. At 0:14 you can see a loader(bottom of the screen) loading slag from the the BOF into a truck. The large door behind him leads to the BOF vessels. I believe the left side of that building is the teaming isle, and the middle where the door is contains the BOF vessels, and to the right the scrap yard and charging areas. Also at 0:14 the building to the left with 2 stacks with steam coming out is the west side caster. The tundish is up in the top of the building, and the caster's strands run in the direction of the bottom of the screen to the top. So finished slabs come out of the building near the top of the screen. The green buildings used to be different mills, but are mostly empty of equipment now. About 7 years ago they were stuffed full of scrap metal, I don't know their current condition.
At 0:28 top left of the screen, the steam stacks, that's the east side BOF and Caster.
And finally Top right of the screen at 0:33 way far off in the distance the group of buildings with the 3 smoke stacks are all the East Side mills. The 3 stacks are the furnaces for hot mill for heating the slabs before running them through the mill. so in order from furthest away to closer they are Slab Yard, Hot Mill, next set of buildings is the Finishing mill/pickling line next set is the Hot Dip Galv Line(with the big red and white stripes on it), and finally the closest set of buildings are all storage. There was a EGL line in one of the buildings but it's not in use, and was slated to be removed last I heard.
The building top middle screen at 0:06 is on the Power house1 for the whole plant. There's another one mixed in with the blast furnaces.
This is the same as the Great Lakes Steel plant on the river south of Detroit .
Even have an EGL that is shut down to . Guess hot dip is easier .
Primary steel shut down a few years ago , only part still running is the cold mill and hot dip .
Wonder what NK is going to do with all of it ?
What great video!
Thank you !
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In 2010 there was one in a sort of valley where the road ran right through it.
That is Arcelormittal
Coming home from school I'd always see as I approach the house big plumes like atomic nuclear bomb blast in the distance
I would watch gas light from my Metro Room like 3iles away
My father died from pantry out of cancer He was a molder 20 plus years at Republic Steel a real sweat toxic shop
My Dad a conductor
Near Steal yard. ..
170 years of environmental hell just for a few people to be so greedy to make so many profits...
170 years of helping hundreds of thousands of employees earn a paycheck, buy a home, send their kids to college. The steel came in handy as well.
Poor Cleveland the place looks like a flat toxic dump