Coal freighter explodes in Baltimore Harbor.

[excalibur]

Coal dust can be very explosive under the right conditions.

Like dust from what in a silo.

 

[excalibur]

Officials: No injuries after apparent explosion near Key Bridge

An apparent explosion on a ship near the site of the Key Bridge has been fully contained, according to Baltimore City fire officials.

www.wbaltv.com

 

[egp320i]

Coal dust can be very explosive under the right conditions.

Like dust from what in a silo.

The other day a large explosion at a coke plant in Pittsburgh, 2 dead and many injured
apparently it's one of the largest coke producers in the USA thus nucor and US steel buy from them

 

[toobfreak]

Coal dust can be very explosive under the right conditions.

Pretty much just like how a carburetor works. Take a volatile, combustible air/fuel mixture, get both components in suspension, then just add a spark of ignition.

Like dust from what in a silo.

Many dusts are dangerous. I've heard of corn silos exploding from corn dust. Remember, both corn and coal both are storage batteries of energy from the Sun, that is how food energizes us, or can move along a steam locomotive.

 

[toobfreak]

The other day a large explosion at a coke plant in Pittsburgh, 2 dead and many injured

I guess that is good then that they found no more dead than those original two.

apparently it's one of the largest coke producers in the USA thus nucor and US steel buy from them

Coke is nothing more that coal heated to something like 1000-1500°F far above where it would burn, but taking out all of the oxygen so that it can't burn.

I guess that creates some chemical change which makes it suitable for steel production. Interesting stuff.

 

[egp320i]

I guess that is good then that they found no more dead than those original two.


Coke is nothing more that coal heated to something like 1000-1500°F far above where it would burn, but taking out all of the oxygen so that it can't burn.

I guess that creates some chemical change which makes it suitable for steel production. Interesting stuff.

right which is why the explosion is odd, I am sure they are investigating this

at some point coke was the missing ingredient of making good steel and US steel knows all about it

 

[egp320i]

right which is why the explosion is odd, I am sure they are investigating this

at some point coke was the missing ingredient of making good steel and US steel knows all about it

I could add my dad was born in Clairton where this coke plant is, in fact he worked there shortly after high school until he went into the air force, it was just not his bag at all
most of my previous generation family worked at US steel

I was not aware of this until my uncle, my dad's youngest brother posted to me on facebook with a link to the story

it was not really national news, just local

 

[Mack The Finger]

I saw the results of a ship blowing up. My friends and I were come'n from a summer cabin in NJ going into MOFO Chester, PA over the Commodore Barry Bridge. It was right below us.

There was an almost immediate explosion on the Corinthos, and luckily the Queeny broke free with only its bow badly damaged. Otherwise, the fire might have been twice as large as it proved to be with only the Corinthos burning. The explosion and fire killed twenty-five sailors and dockworkers, burned for days, devastated the neighborhood and occupied the efforts of three dozen fire companies

On that cold winter day, two big tanker ships were tied up alongside the opposite banks of the Delaware River at Marcus Hook. The Corinthos was a 754-foot tanker with a capacity of 400,000 barrels of crude oil, tied up on the Pennsylvania side at the British Petroleum dock with perhaps 300,000 barrels still in its tanks at the time of the disaster.

Philadelphia Reflections: The Corinthos Disaster

www.philadelphia-reflections.com

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[HikerGuy83]

I guess that is good then that they found no more dead than those original two.


Coke is nothing more that coal heated to something like 1000-1500°F far above where it would burn, but taking out all of the oxygen so that it can't burn.

I guess that creates some chemical change which makes it suitable for steel production. Interesting stuff.

Coke is made by essentially baking resid. Resid has a low hydrogen to carbon ratio. Thing rearrange at the high temperatures....creating what they call coker naphtha and coker diesel. They can be processed and used. What is left behind is the low hydrogen coke which becomes a solid.

It is used in steel production (or used to be). Not sure any more.