Energy Data Reports: Coke Producers in the United States in 1978

摘要

This report continues the annual series on Coke Producers in the United States. Data was collected from those plants known to be operating on December 31, 1978, and was compiled from Bureau of Mines form 6-1370-A, and Department of Energy forms EIA-5 and EIA-5A. The coke industry of the United States on December 31, 1978, was composed of 63 plants: 18 classified as merchant and 45 as furnace. Furnace plants are those owned by iron and steel companies whose principal business is producing blast-furnace coke for their own use. Merchant plants are either associated with chemical companies of gas utilities, or operate to produce coke and coal-chemical materials for sales in the open-market. Newly included in the merchant plant classification are beehive coke plants and other non-recoverable coke oven operators. In the only change of ownership that occurred during 1978 the Allied Chemical Corporation merchant plant at Buffalo, New York, was acquired by the Tonawanda Coke Company. Coke plants are listed alphabetically by state on the following pages. This list includes name and address of the company, plant name, classification (merchants or furnace) and major uses of coke and coal-chemical materials produced. An end-use is considered a major use if it is 20 percent or more of the plant's total disposal of coke. All plants except the beehive and nonrecovery ovens produced crude coal tar. Forty-five plants produced some type of ammonia product. Fifteen plants recovered intermediate light oil and forty-nine recovered crude light oil. (ERA citation 05:034523)