White-Hot Coke Being Processed at United States Steel Corporation's Clairton, Pa.
Description:
Caption on back reads, 'Coke Plants, White-hot coke being pushed from a by-product coke oven at United States Steel Corporation's Clairton, Pa. Works. The car into which the coke is being pushed goes to a quenching tower where it is cooled. Located in the great Pittsburgh steel-producing area, the Clairton by-product coke plant is one of the largest in te world, with a battery of more than 1,500 coke ovens, and has a daily consumption capacity of 30,000 tons of coal. Undated photo courtesy U.S. Steel.; Stamp: Bituminous Coal Institute, 320 Southern Bldg. Washington 5, D.C.
Produced at Mountaineer Carbon Company, high purity electrode carbon is being used for anode or for graphitized electrodes. The plant was designed by Ford, Bacon and Davis, Inc using process data delivered by Petrocarb Equipment Co., Inc. and the Consolidation Coal Company. The Mountaineer Carbon Company was formed in 1956. The raw material-coke was recieved from Sohio's and other refineries and also was present at the plant's site (green petrolum coke).
