[TheForge] Pet Coke

[David E. Smucker]

Pet Coke (Petroleum Coke) is a basic feed stock to the Aluminum Smelting
Industry (Aluminium outside the USA).  It is used to make the carbon anodes
for smelting pot lines.  I also think it is used to make the carbon rods
(huge) for electrical arc furnaces in the steel industry.

Dave Smucker
Brasstown, NC

-----Original Message-----
From: TheForge [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike
Spencer
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 4:31 PM
To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Coak


> Well said Mike. Let me know if I miss your message. 
>
> Cagey attempts to avoid words with poor miss spellings and code words 
> is FAR more attention getting than just using the word in a proper 
> context.

I'm inclined, without any real evidence, to suppose so.  Has to do with the
spook/LEO/TLA mentality rather than the scanning algorithms.

> I prefer using coal coke to petroleum coke in my forge...

I have this vague recollection that there is an abundant and superfluous
supply of pet coke in certain places that the owners are eager to get rid
of.  And a similar recollection that it tends to come in suitcase-sized
chunks and be very hard -- much harder than lumpy bituminous coal -- to
break up and is much harder to get burning well.

So is pet coke something that might be had for the cost of fetching it
and finding a way to crush it into pea size?   Would it be worth the
trouble?  This:

    http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/temp/crusher.html

was not adequate for production crushing. :-)


- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^

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