Scope: Operation and Maintenance
Sector: Coal and Coke
Client: British Steel
Location: Scunthorpe, UK
Technology: Coke Oven Battery
Date: 2016
Battery 3
Project Reference
British Steel - Battery 3 Recovery Works
Otto Simon delivered a ‘Hot Idling and Recovery’ Project on Battery 3 of the Appleby Coke Ovens in Scunthorpe.
The project faced the challenge of constantly balancing the needs of pushing coke, continuing the recovery work on battery 3 and managing interfaces between batteries 1, 2, and 4.
Scope of Work:
The project involved a complex scope of work including:
- Replacing all ascension pipes and Pullman valves
- Replacing both north and south flare stacks
- Replacing charge holes
- Replacing door frames and tie-bars
- Replacing a proportion of buckstays
- Quoin end repairs
- Essential maintenance repairs (including replacement of flues and silica welding of all joints and cracks
- Replacing service pipework
- Replacing the walkway above the collecting main
- Electrical and control infrastructure improvements
