The Dorr Plant at Bethlehem Steel
These are pictures I took in August of 1995 of
the Dorr Plant. Flu dirt is gathered and condensed and loaded into gondolas. When there where enough they were
sent out to Conrail. Thank you doctor_hiemlich and Rob Davis for the information. I've had these pictures of a really neat
building since 1995 but I never knew what it was.
According to doctor_hiemlich (who should know, he used to work for the PBNE):
' This was a water/scrubber way of filtering some of the dirt from
being released into the atmosphere. To the best of my understanding,
the water/slurry mix caked on a slowly rotating wide belt and dried.
This dirt then was filled into the small "BI gons".'
New information (at least to me) :
This new picture shows the Dorr plant tank and the building to the right is called the cake houseThanks to James Musser for the following description: The liquified dust from the gas washers and electrostatic precipitators was pumped to the Dorr thickener, and then the thickened slurry was pumped from that to the cake house. The process there I believe is to run the slurry through sieves or screens and the solids that remain are dried (the cake). Once dried, it's removed from the screen and dumped into, in this case it sounds like a mill got The blast furnace manual for this mill (was on that collection of files that the Industrial Museum put out way back on CDs, which I've since lost some of the files including the manual) showed that this material was then moved from the cake house to the ore yard. It was added as part of the sinter mix. Map of ore yard showed specific location it was stored etc.
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