Central coking
As a central coking plants after the definition of the term refers united steel plants AG from 1926 "... coking plants with an annual capacity of 28% (2.34 million years tons) of generation opportunity."
Central coking plants have a multiple size of large coking plants and thus several coke oven batteries . They have a coking coal throughput that can only be covered by using coal from various shaft systems and are therefore equipped with coal mixing systems.
Central coking plants are always close to the large steelworks.
The terms central coking and large-scale coking can no longer be properly assigned after the 1930s, as many large-scale coking plants were expanded but were not called “central coking” by the owners. The only coking plant with this title still in existence today is the Saar Central Coking Plant .
Summary
- ~ 130,000 tons of coke per year (1926)
- multiple batteries
- Mixing plant
- Neighborhood metallurgical plant
- Coal use from several mine systems
Central coking plants named in 1926:
- Carolinenglück coking plant
- Friedrich Thyssen coking plant 3/7
- Friedrich Thyssen coking plant 4/8
- Alma coking plant
- Nordstern coking plant
- Coking plant Hörder association
After the 1938s, the following coking plants were named central coking plants
- Hansa coking plant
- Dahlbusch coking plant
- Westende coking plant
- Zollverein coking plant
- Carolinenglück coking plant
- Lorraine coking plant
- Prosper coking plant