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The heated coke was pushed out to a horizontal ramp padded with cas-iron plates. There the workers manually turned, ripped and crushed coke using long rods ended with pikes or hooks. After the coke was broke down into smaller fragments, it was quenched with water. However, the workers attempted to use only the necessary amount of water as surplus of water reduced the value of coke. Coke quenching was an exceptionally hard and dangerous work that have a significantly bad impact on the health of workers. Quenched coke was loaded from flat wharf to railway wagons using wheelbarrows and pitchforks, which classified the coke according to its granulation. The reconstruction of coke wharf from flat to inclined enabled the elimination of manual labour.

The greatest consumption of industrial water was shown by the gas and coke cooling system. When there was a surplus of mine waters, open flow circulations were used. Mine waters with low temperature cooled gas in the initial pipe coolers through a diaphragm and then were directed to dillute the plant sewage. The chimney cooler had a hydraulic load capacity of 40 m3/h. The consumption of mine waters amounted up to a maximum of 1,000 m3 per day while drinking water taken from the municipal network was consumed at a rate of 300 m3 per day. The stock of water in the amount of 6000 m3 was kept in pools and ponds. The post-brickyard pond (current name: Sokolnia) was reinforced in 1926 with pumping station for the needs of water economy of the coke plant.

Quenching of pushed out coke (from the collection of JSW KOKS Zabrze)

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