World of Coke
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
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.
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.
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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Alibaba.com Corporation and its licensors
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