re: Granite City Steel Mill that Reopened Thanks to Trump is closing under Biden!

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Im incorrect that there are coke ovens that suncoke converts metcoal to cke at granite city? Is tgat what you are saying?

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I'm saying that the petcoke process is totally different than the old style coke oven batteries.

Petcoke Defenition

Definition:
Petroleum coke is defined as a black solid residue, obtained mainly by cracking and carbonising of petroleum derived feedstocks, vacuum bottoms, tar and pitches in processes such as delayed coking or fluid coking. It consists mainly of carbon (90 to 95 per cent) and has a low ash content.

It is used as a feedstock in coke ovens for the steel industry, for heating purposes, for electrode manufacture and for production of chemicals.

FYI Suncoke has facilities all over USA as I told you before.

Old AK Steel in Middletown, Ohio (now Cliffs) shut down all of their cokemaking operation at that integrated plant in the past couple years. They now are supplied with petcoke from the Sukcoke facility across the street.

The largest cokemaking operation on the planet is US Steel's Clairton, PA facility FYI and they make it the old way, with coal. Also a customer of mine. The EPA stopped allowing permits of these types of facilities being built and the coke from these types of facilities has been replaced with petcoke as the older plants have been shuttered and closed.

Not trying to be a dick or embarrass you, but you're just not correct about most of what you've stated.

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I know what a coker is, hell ive built and worked on dozens of them.

The thing you refuse to admit is that suncoke has coke batteries at granite city that convert coal to coke.

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I think we were arguing about different things or I misunderstood you. No doubt Suncoke still operates some batteries to convert coal to coke without the byproducts processes like old batteries.

They also have petcoking facilities, that's really all I was trying to convey. I'll leave it that most of what you said was correct as was most of what I said. Think I just misunderstood that you thought petcoke wasn't being used in blast furnaces.