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White hot - very hot indeed!

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:02:29 +0000

This was taken around 1989 at the then British Steel's stainless steel plant at Tinsley, Sheffield.

The raw steel is melted in an enormous electric arc furnace and impurities rise to the top of the molten steel as slag. The molten slag is tapped off into a cone-shaped crucible which is then picked up by the special transporter as shown, trundled outside and tipped into a large pit. When it is cool, the solidified slag is broken up and used as hardcore in construction projects.

The photograph was taken using a 135 mm telephoto lens from around 150 m away and I could feel the heat even at that distance. The now defunct Sheffield airport was built on this site.

Scanned from a Kodacolor print .

Coke ovens 3

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:38:14 +0000

Earthwatcher has posted:

Coal from Brookhouse Colliery was made into coke at the adjacent coke ovens.

Rams push the red-hot coke into a hopper mounted on rails. The hopper is electrically driven - you can see the locomotive and its electric pickup - and is transported a few tens of metres away to the cooling area where jets of water are sprayed onto the coke to cool it. It is then loaded into lorries or wagons to go to the steel works.

The coke ovens were closed and dismantled in the late 1980s. The land was opencasted to recover the shallow coal and then restored to make the Rother Valley Country Park.

Coke ovens 2

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:38:35 +0000

Earthwatcher has posted:

Coal from Brookhouse Colliery was made into coke at the adjacent coke ovens.

Rams push the red-hot coke into a hopper mounted on rails. The hopper is electrically driven (via the pair of overhead wires in the centre of the picture) and is transported a few tens of metres away to the cooling area where jets of water are sprayed onto the coke to cool it. It is then loaded into lorries or wagons to go to the steel works.

The coke ovens were closed and dismantled in the late 1980s. The land was opencasted to recover the shallow coal and then restored to make the Rother Valley Country Park.

Coke ovens 1

nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:38:55 +0000

Earthwatcher has posted:

Coal from Brookhouse Colliery was made into coke at the adjacent coke ovens.

Rams push the red-hot coke into a hopper mounted on rails. The hopper is electrically driven (via the pair of overhead wires in the centre of the picture) and is transported a few tens of metres away to the cooling area where jets of water are sprayed onto the coke to cool it. It is then loaded into lorries to go to the steel works.

The coke ovens were closed and dismantled in the late 1980s. The land was opencasted to recover the shallow coal and then restored to make the Rother Valley Country Park.