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Show Geneva Steel plans project for making coke during fall work A project involving batteries of coke ovens at U. S. Steel's Genera Works, which convert coal into coke at temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees F., was announced by Raymond W. Sundquist, Geneva general superintendent. su-perintendent. Mr. Sundquist said work will start this fall and go forward by eight ovens at a time in order to maintain nearly normal nor-mal production of coke during the construction period. Coke is a raw material for ironmak-ing ironmak-ing by Geneva's three blast furnaces. The project will maintain the life of the ovens and significantly signif-icantly reduce gas leakage from oven doors, he emphasized. emphasiz-ed. The Geneva Coke plant has been operated since 1944. Approval by U. S. Steel for this project represents a solid vote of confidence in the future success of the Errors Zero campaign cam-paign by Geneva employees 1 3 compete profitably for steel customers as one team, Mr. Sundquist said. Work on the Geneva ovens will include installation of self-sealing doors and jambs, 723 or 45 above the 1960 replacement or straightening of the buckstays, or oven steel framework, plus some new piping pi-ping on top of the batteries to collect the gas for transfer to nearby chemicals operations. In addition, refractory brickwork brick-work will be replaced, where necessary and modifications will be made to auxiliary facilities facil-ities such as pusher machines and door extractors. Each coke oven at Geneva nnHamaH is a rectangular, brick-lined chamber' in which coal is heated heat-ed in the absence of air for about 16 hours. Gases from th coking process are collected t chemicals such as benzene, to luene, xylene, ammonium sul fate and coal tar. Metallurgical coke is chargec into Geneva's three blast furnaces fur-naces which produce molter iron for steelmaking at the integrated in-tegrated plant. George Washington took th command of the Americar Army on July 3, 1775, in Cambridge, Cam-bridge, Mass. One's intelligence can ofter be measured by how much h keeps his mouth shut. |