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Ruhr Region

Coke Oven Batteries, Hansa Coking Plant

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Coke Oven Batteries, Hansa Coking Plant

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

June 15, 2024

"The Hansa coking plant was built in 1927 and expanded twice. At peak times, 5,400 tons of coke were produced here every day. A striking feature here is the separation and arrangement of the coke oven batteries and chemical plants in two "streets", the Black and White Streets. On the White Street, byproducts such as purified coke gas were obtained for resale, while the coking process took place on the Black Street. From 1986 to 1992, operations were gradually discontinued..."

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"Several coke ovens are combined to form a coke battery (coke oven battery). Heating walls and coke oven chambers alternate.

The so-called horizontal chamber ovens are still in use today. An oven chamber is several meters high and deep, but relatively narrow. Since coal is a poor conductor of heat, the coke ovens are always built as narrow chambers. The ratio of the The dimensions are still the same for modern coke ovens.

While the coke oven chambers at the Hansa coking plant were 12.9 m long, 4.1 m high and 41 cm (on average) wide, the coke oven chambers at the Kaiserstuhl coking plant were already 18 m long, 7.63 m high and 61 cm wide (on average) in 1992. The coke ovens at the Schwelgern coking plant are currently the largest coke oven chambers in the world, with a height of 8.32 m, a length of 20.8 m and an average chamber width of 59 cm.

The coke ovens are filled from above and the finished coke is pushed out from the side. The resulting raw gas is discharged into a receiver via riser pipes. The heating walls with their heating flues are located on both sides of the oven chambers...

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Coke Oven Batteries, Hansa Coking Plant

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