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Stella Gill Coking Plant
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| Location: | Pelton Fell 6 miles [10 km] NNW of Durham |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 88) NZ258521, 54° 51' 47" N, 1° 35' 53" W |
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| Output: | 1961 - Coke. (155,000 tons) |
| Employment: | 1961 - 199 |
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Description
The plant consists of 50 Still regenerative semi-silica ovens built in 1935 the site of a previous battery, using an existing oven bunker. Owing to its poor condition the plant was closed shortly after Vesting Date but was renovated and re-started in 1949.
The plant carbonises 195,000 tons of coal per annum (530 tons per day) of Handen Hold and Bearpark washed coal brought in over British Railways, wagon vibrators being fitted to facilitate teeming. There are four small blending bunkers.
The coke is band quenched on a sloping bench. The ovens are 19½" wide compared with the normal width of 18" and were changed over from furnace to foundry coke production in 1959. This has involved modifications to the coke screening plant, the installation of breeze crushing and blending equipment, extensions to sidings and the provision of road loading and weighing facilities.
Purifiers, a producer for gas dilution to a standard calorific value and a gasholder were installed in 1954. to supply 3 million cubic feet of gas per day to the Northern Gas Board. Steam and unpurified gas are supplied to the adjacent N.C.B./Ness tar distillation plant. Crude benzole is sent to the Board's refineries for treatment.
The Lancashire boilers are fitted with superheaters, mechanical stokers and gas burners and the boiler chimney has been heightened to deal with an extra boiler required to provide steam for turbo exhausters which replaced electrically driven machines.
Coking Plants, 1961
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
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Names of those killed at this colliery
No names found.
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Stella Gill Coking Plant
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Stella Gill Coking Plant
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Credits
Sources:
- NCB - Durham Division: Details of Coking and Ancillary Plants, January 1961
Pictures:
- Picture from NCB Information Booklet
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Related Links:
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| | Pictures in the Gallery section for Stella Gill Coking Plant |
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