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"Radlin" Cokery was built in
Radlin in 1911 - originally a division of 'Emma' Mine.
The plant continued to operate as a division of the Mine
for a long time and finally became an independent company
in 1920, but retained its name - 'Emma Coal Mine Cokery'.
In 1951 the plant, then a state owned company, changed
its name to Zakład Koksochemiczny "Radlin".
In the year of construction, 1911 the plant was equipped
with two Otto - Hoffman type, 45-chamber, chamotte coke
oven batteries - I and II. The batteries used compacted
coal and produced ca. 6 t of coke per one chamber, i.e.
ca. 40 thousand tonnes per year for both batteries. Battery
I was decommissioned in 1957 and battery II was dismantled
in 1953. In 1913 battery III - Koppers type battery, chamotte
with side fuelling, producing 7 t of coke per one chamber,
decommissioned in 1966. Two years later, after start-up
of battery III, another battery - battery IV was started
up. This was a Collin type silica battery. Charge coal
from 'Anna' Mine was transported by 5-6 km. Long cableway
built in 1928, connecting the Mine and the Cokery. Two
other batteries - battery V and battery VI were completed
in 1928/29. These were Otto type silica batteries. In
1938 Radlin cokery contributed total quantity of 540 thousand
tonnes of coke to the total output of 2,3 million tonnes
of coke produced by all batteries operated in Poland.
Batteries V and VI remained in operation until 1945. On
the 1st of April 1945 the state officially took over the
plant and commenced renovation and repair of batteries
I, III and IV. Between the years 1952 - 53 modernisation
of batteries II, V and VI was completed and new coke storage
facility was built.
In 1996 the company built a new battery - PTU-57 type
facility with 56 chambers, designed by Zabrze based 'Koksoprojekt'
company. In the meantime the Company stopped operation
of batteries I and II and prepared space required for
construction of another PTU-57 battery, which went into
operation in 1970. The old batteries were gradually phased
out and in 1981 battery V was shut down.
At the end of the eighties and beginning of the nineties
was a time of Kombinat activity related with another modernisation
of the plant.
Construction and assembly of a sulphur removal system
in 'Radlin' Cokery ensured elimination
of ca. 80 - 90% of sulphur dioxide from coke oven batteries
stacks.
In 1995 all water circulation systems within the plant
were connected to the new biological wastewater treatment
plant. Today 'Radlin' Cokery operates
two PTU-57 type coke oven batteries and has one of the
most effective systems of sulphur removal from coke-oven
gas.
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