Thirteen blast furnaces, forty-nine open hearth furnaces, twenty-nine finishing mills and sixty-eight coke-oven batteries were restored to effective or outstanding production rates.

Another 400 jobs will be lost from the shutdown of coke oven batteries at Sparrows Point.

The court also ruled the closure of the plant's largest furnace, number five, and of seven coke oven batteries.

PAH emissions are reduced by the use of good operating and maintenance practices on the coke oven batteries.

It is assumed that these idled batteries will not be replaced by new or re-built by-product coke oven batteries.

Visakhapatnam Steel Plant was established in the 1980s and the first coke oven battery was commissioned in 1989.

In a coke oven battery, a number of ovens are built in a row with common walls between neighboring ovens.

The estimated emission reduction in this phase includes the impact of the idling of Stelco's numbers 3, 4 and 5 coke oven batteries in 1995.

A coke oven battery may contain 40 or more refractory-walled coke chambers interspaced with heating chambers referred to as "flues."

Long-term Technical Option The objective of this long-term option would be to phase out the balance of the byproduct coke oven batteries.

The purpose of these plans is to provide continuous improvement to the coke oven batteries and to reduce emissions over time, through the application of proactive maintenance techniques.

The blast furnaces were not of the open top type as at Kulti and coke oven batteries were also built to provide coke for the furnaces.

The Glebe coke ovens were extended to their maximum number of 141 in 1953 and plans for No. 6 coke oven battery were formulated shortly after.

The Coke Oven battery has 8 batteries with 69 ovens each, maintained meticulously in terms of fugitive emission control, use of phenolic water and other pollution control measures.

Coke Oven- RSP has five 4.7-metre-tall coke oven batteries (COBs) that produce coke as the input for blast furnaces.

As a responsible corporate citizen, RSP has taken effective measures in the area of pollution control in by-product coke oven batteries, Battery No: 4 and 7m tall Battery No: 6.

Coke ovens workers, for example, have revealed that management turned down the level of production in Port Kembla's dirtiest coke ovens battery -- Number 3 -- during the recent temporary monitoring of benzene levels.

It warned that a significant improvement in Brazil was not expected until the second half of the new fiscal year when the start-up of a third coke oven battery is due that is essential for the cost-efficient operation of the whole plant.

Barea outlined the recommendations dealing with industrial health and safety, including the immediate closure of BHP's No 3 coke ovens battery and the relocation of Coalcliff and Corrimal cokeworks, without loss of jobs.

In the latter part of the century, Algoma, in Sault Ste. Marie, built coke oven batteries and blast furnaces, while phasing out the open-hearth and Bessemer steel-making process in favour of the basic oxygen steel-making.

In 1961, Birtley secured an order worth £250,000 for the design, production and erection of coal and coke conveying installations at the South Durham Steel and Iron Company's new coke ovens battery at Cargo Fleet, Middlesbrough.

RINL-VIZAG Steel Plant has also entrusted MECON for consultancy and project monitoring services for its Coke Oven Battery No.5 Complex and other associated facilities under its 6.3 MTPA expansion program.

The capital cost of a new by-product coke oven battery with a capacity of one million tonnes of coke per year is in the range of $425 to 450 million24. The cost will vary depending on the availability of space at the specific plant and the degree to which existing equipment and service infrastructure can be utilized.