01-17-2009, 03:51 PM
Great photos, Jim, and much better than any I could find. 
Val, the building with all the piping is the BOF, with each stack representing one vessel. This end is, I believe, where the ladles are rebuilt. The item in the foreground, along with the other two near the doors, are slag pots, which are carried by a rubber-tired vehicle to the slag dump on the bayfront - the pot is tipped, allowing the molten slag to run into a pit, often with explosive results.
The following photo is one of the coke oven batteries (I couldn't say which one, though, as I never worked on this side of the plant.) I don't know if this is the side from which the coke is pushed or the side to which it's pushed, but there's a track hidden by the retaining wall with the railing on top. On the pushing side, the door remover and pusher would run on it, while on the receiving side, there'd be a door remover and the coke larry car.
The last two photos are, I think, "D" Furnace, which I believe has been torn down.
Wayne
Val, the building with all the piping is the BOF, with each stack representing one vessel. This end is, I believe, where the ladles are rebuilt. The item in the foreground, along with the other two near the doors, are slag pots, which are carried by a rubber-tired vehicle to the slag dump on the bayfront - the pot is tipped, allowing the molten slag to run into a pit, often with explosive results.
The following photo is one of the coke oven batteries (I couldn't say which one, though, as I never worked on this side of the plant.) I don't know if this is the side from which the coke is pushed or the side to which it's pushed, but there's a track hidden by the retaining wall with the railing on top. On the pushing side, the door remover and pusher would run on it, while on the receiving side, there'd be a door remover and the coke larry car.
The last two photos are, I think, "D" Furnace, which I believe has been torn down.
Wayne