01-19-2009, 10:24 PM
DrGeologist Wrote:TruchkLover, in your thread where you decribe your dream steel mill layout, you mention having a power station that is coalfired. I was thinking something similar, but I was thinking of basicaly combining the sintering/coke ovens with a power plant. In my lttle fantasy world, the process of creating coke would produce alot of waste gas, I figure this gas could be captured and used in a natural gas poer station (Northern Light and Power). COmbinnig the two kits would make a pretty sweet structure/complex.
I had originally wanted to do a power plant using the Walthers Tre-State Power Authority and a few substation kits, but i just dont have enough room lol. Power Station Buildings are one thing that i have forgot to add in the plans. These Power Stations will be pretty much just small square buildings, with maybe a Walthers Sub-station with it. the Walthers Northern Light and Power would work perfectly for a smaller power plant on the site. The Tre-State would make a good large one, but i dont know if i have enough room to squeeze that one in there lol
I think that combining the coke oven and power plant sounds like a cool idea. In fact, that is what they do, they take some of the bi-product gases that are produced in the various process of steel making and turn them into power to power the HUGE buildings that make up a steel mill, so your idea would be good
DrGeologist Wrote:I've also started work on my high line to feed the BFs. The high line will be entirely scratch built as it need to be 3 times as high and around 10-12 times longer than the silly little things that are included in the BF kit. I've scrounged up most of the materials I will use for it already... I've never scractch built anything before and this is goining to be a very large structure ( longer than the ore dock), so this may get interesting!
This is what i will have to do as well. Ill use the Highlines that come with the 4 furnaces as a start so i can build off of it from there lol. My highline is somewhere in the neighborhood of 180" lol