The site also included coke ovens and by-products plants supplying metallurgical coke to the iron and steel industry, particularly those in Scunthorpe.
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The proposed capacity of the plant is 1.6 million ton of low ash metallurgical coke per annum alongside power generation capacity of 120 MW.
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Anthracite has a history of use in blast furnaces for iron smelting; however, it lacked the pore space of metallurgical coke, which eventually replaced anthracite.
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The coke new process can produce a metallurgical coke that is 20 percent stronger ( with less sulfur and ash ) from 20 percent lower grades of coal than ever before possible.
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High quality metallurgical coking coal deposits of sufficient size for iron making were only available in Great Britain and western Germany in the 19th century, but with less fuel required per unit of iron, it was possible to use lower grade coal.
