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Information About Coke

Coke is a fuel with few impurities and a high carbon content and it is used when purity and high carbon content is desired. Coke is used worldwide in blast furnaces. Coke is used most often in making metals.

Coke, is a hard gray fuel. According to the New Columbia Encyclopedia, coke bears the same relation to coal as does charcoal to wood.

Coke is made in brick furnaces with bituminous coal as the source.

Coke making produces by-products which are: ammonia, coal tar, and gaseous compounds, which are saved, but can also be environmental pollutants.

Coke can be made also in a destructive distillation process. According to the New Columbia Encyclopedia, only a small amount of coke is made in the coke distillation process.

Without the high temperatures coke can produce, steel making would be more difficult.  It might be that without coke, the industrial revolution itself would not have taken place.  How would the industrial revolution have "worked" without steel?

Production of coke outside the USA remains relatively small: in 1998 North America produced 80% of world petroleum coke. A number of new Latin American coking units have begun producing petroleum coke from heavy local crude oils, providing new competition.

History of coke from the Wikipedia

The use of coke as a fuel was pioneered in 17th century England in response to the ever-growing problem of European deforestation. Wood was becoming increasingly scarce and expensive, and coal's fumes, particularly smoke and sulfur compounds, disqualified it from many applications, including cooking and iron smelting. In 1603, Sir Henry Platt suggested that coal might be charred in a manner analogous to the way charcoal is produced from wood. This process was not put into practice, however, until 1642, when coke was used for roasting malt in Derbyshire. (Coal could not be used in brewing, because its sulfurous fumes would impart a foul taste to the resulting beer.) Perhaps more significantly, in 1709, Abraham Darby set up a coke-fired blast furnace to produce cast iron. The ensuing availability of inexpensive iron was one of the factors leading to the European industrial revolution.

More on coke from the Wikipedia

Coke is a Solid Fuel http://www.solidfuel.co.uk/frame/main.html  

Petroleum coke There is a petroleum coke. Petroleum coke is the solid residue left over in the cracking process in oil refinement.

Natural coke There is a natural coke. Natural coke is also called carbonite coke. Natural coke is formed by metamorphism from bituminous coal when intrusive igneous rock cuts across a vein of coal.

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New Importance of Coke

As the world oil-related energy situation deepens in the years ahead, fuel forms made from coal will become even more important. Coke, similar to gasoline in that it can produce very high temperatures from relatively small physical volumes may find new uses outside industrial settings at the consumer level.   Coke is not as convenient or practical as gasoline or fuel oil is today.  But because coke contains high levels of chemical to heat energy potentials, coke is an interestingly interesting energy source.

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Market Information About Coke

Marsulex Inc. (TSX: MLX) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Oxbow Industrial Services, LLC ("OIS"), a leading provider of in-refinery petroleum coke ("petcoke") cutting and bulk handling services to major oil refineries in the U.S. Gulf Coast and West Coast and Venezuela, from Oxbow Carbon & Minerals LLC.  For complete story see: www.TradingCharts.com 

Marsulex: Laurie Tugman, President and CEO, Tel: (416) 496-4157; or Edward R. (Ted) Irwin, Chief Financial Officer, Tel: (416) 496-4164; Oxbow Carbon & Minerals LLC: Brian Acton, President and COO, Tel: (561) 640-8730 or Brad Goldstein Corporate Communications Director, Tel: (561) 640-8822

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Be sure to see the Web site for: 

The Association for Iron & Steel Technology

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By-products and wastes generated by the gasification process included polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds, and other contaminants and hazardous substances including benzene, arsenic, heavy metals, tar, oil, coal, lampblack, and coke.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2011/2011-12-13-091.html

Manager arrested, company cited for enviro violations

Jan. 29 2010-- An environmental manager for Tonawanda Coke Corp. has been arrested and several environmental allegations have been made against the company following a lengthy investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.  Link here: http://www.wasterecyclingnews.com/headlines2.html?id=1264777367&allowcomm=true

Council asks Tonawanda Coke to be better neighbor. The City of Tonawanda Common Council is asking nearby chemical facilities to be better neighbors by reducing the amount of a carcinogenic chemical that they release into the air, potentially putting city residents’ health at risk. North Tonawanda News, New York. 7 January 2009.

Monroe spends $150,000 and counting to halt coke plant. The city says the coke plant would emit thousands of tons per year of new pollutants into the air of Butler County, which does not meet federal air quality standards designed to protect public health. Middletown Journal, Ohio. 25 February 2009.

Ohio EPA: It's OK to start building $340M coke plant. SunCoke Energy has the go-ahead to start construction on its $340 million coke oven facility in Middletown. Middletown Journal, Ohio. 22 January 2009.

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Proposed coke plant raises concerns for neighboring communities

By Duane Ramsey
Toledo Free Press Staff Writer

November 2007--Sandy Bihn doesn't know her possible new neighbors, but she's leery about what their presence in her community could mean.

Bihn, a member of Oregon City Council, is concerned about the amount of air and water pollution a proposed industrial facility to be located along the border of Oregon and Toledo would release into the environment. The plant, which would produce coke, a byproduct of coal, for use in North American steel and foundry facilities, will be built on an area the City of Toledo pledged to keep as wetlands when it expanded its water treatment plant on York Street south of the site, said Bihn, executive director of the Western Lake Erie Waterkeeper Association.

“The site is right across the river from Point Place so those residents should be concerned about the potential pollution from it,” Bihn said. “Most communities would have a lot of interest, but Toledo seems to be apathetic toward environmental issues.”

Click for full story:   http://www.toledofreepress.com/?id=6796

New Coke Plant Controversy:
From the Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio

Cocaine "coke" is also a well known slang term for cocaine.  For further information about cocaine search with Google, AllTheWeb, Lycos, or other Web search sites.  For other definitions please also see The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

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In July 2005 a coke drying plant near Chicago, Illinois was facing government action regarding alleged air pollution violations at Lemont, Ill.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency alleges that the company modified the plant, causing significant emission increases, without obtaining permits that would have required the installation of additional pollution controls. The company also allegedly failed to report the modifications in its state operating permit application and failed to comply with testing and monitoring requirements, the EPA said.  The emissions that allegedly increased included volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.  Source: WasteNews.com

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