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The coking plant 'Kaiserstuhl' in Dortmund
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The coking plant 'Kaisertuhl III' has been in operation from 1992 until December 15, 2000. The generosity of it's owner company, the 'DSK', made the following photographs possible. No trace is left of it's predecessors 'Kaiserstuhl I' (closed 1895) and 'Kaiserstuhl II' (1926 - 1991). The plant differs from other abandoned industrial installations: it is clean and shiny and looks almost like new. The ultra-modern coking plant has been constructed by a syndicate at a cost of about 700 million Euros. The coking plant was equipped with a dry quenching installation, an ecologically beneficial and efficient way to quench the coke by use of an inert gas. Two batteries, each consisting of 60 ovens (inner dimensions 18 m x 7.64 m x 0.61 m), produced about 6000 tonnes of coke per day, which was primarily used in the adjoining blast furnaces of the 'Westfalenhütte'. Most of the coal originated from the mine 'Heinrich Robert'.
batteriy (coke side)
batteriy (coke side)
oven door (coke side)
oven door (coke side)
dry coke quenching plant
dry coke quenching plant
ram bench
ram bench
ram bench
ram bench
coke side with dry coke quenching plant
coke side with dry coke quenching plant
coke wharf
coke wharf
pushing machine
pushing machine

©   Harald Finster, Gulpener Str. 26, 52074 Aachen, Germany   industrial photography
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