EFFICIENT UTILIZATION OF COKE GAS IN THE USSR

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• Publication Date: August 1, 1950
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CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic ?- Coke gas
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED May 1950
LANGUAGE Russian
This DOCU NUMT CONTAIN! IMVONNATIDN ATSOCTINS Till NATIONAL DIFOINI
OT TNl UNITID STATUS WITHIN THIN MILANINO OF unoRANI ACT 50
0. N. C., At AND NI. AS ANINOI0. ITS TNANNN ISSION OR TNI NIVILATION
OS ITS CONTINTS IN ANT ^ANMIS TO AN ONAUTHONISIO PINSON IN PRO-
MISITIO ST LAW. NISNODUCTION OF THIS NORM 15 PNONINITID.
SOURCE Za Ekonomiyu Topliva, No 5, 1950.
NAVY
AIR
The Five-,Year Plan fixed the 1950 level of coke production at 30 million
tons. This level would assure a production of approximately billion. cubic
meters of coke gas, the second most valuable product of the .poke-chemical in-
dustry. t
During the period 1929 - 1940 the amount of coke gas produced in the USSR
increased 470 percent. The geographical distribution and the technical level
of the coke-chemical industry of the USSR also changed greatly during that pe-
riod. At the same time gas obtained from coke-chemical plants connected with
mtallurgical plants increased 1,100 percent. Sale of coke gas to outsiders
increased from 6.3 percent in 1928 to 21 percent in 1933, 45.9 percent in 1937,
52.5 percent in 1939, and 54.9 percent in 1940.
In 1940 coke-chemical plants were using so much coke gas for their own
purposes (heating of coking ovens, for steam boilers, etc.) that an inadequate
supply was available for ferrous metallurgy and other consumers of coke gas.
During World War II, the coke-chemical industry continued to expand in Eastern
USSR and a considerable number of coking ovens were heated by _blast.:.' furnace
gas. This reduced the consumption of coke gas for the plants' owa purposes to
23-26 percent of the total gas output in 1942 - 1943.
A considerable number of the coke batteries in the restored metallurgical
:.ndustry of the South had to be heated by coke gas. In spite of this, coke
gas consumed for the plants' )wn purposes in the South decreased to 44 percent
in 1948 as against 47.9 percent for 1940.
There is room for further progress in reducing coke gas for plants' own
consumption. Blast furnace gas should be used more extensively for heating
coking ovens. If inadequate supplies of blast furnace gas are available, pro-
ducer gas could be used. Then it would be possible to raise the amount of gas
for outside consumption to 90-92 percent. This has already been achieved by
a number of outstanding coke plants, Magnitogorsk, Stalino, and others.
CUMFI NTIA I
STATE
ARMY
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
DATE DIST. / Au& 1950
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
EFFICIENT UTILIZATION OF COKE GAS IN THE USSR
NSRB
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With an increased gas supply based on coke gas in areas of the Donbass,
the Dnepr, and the Urals, the use of liquid fuel can be completely eliminated
in enterprises which are hooked up with the gas system. The consumption of
coking coal, a valuable raw material for the chemical industry, can be cut
down. The cost of heat can be reduced, labor and transport expenses lessened.
The 1950, 350 million cubic meters of coke gas will be supplied to city
gas systems. This is equal to 3 percent of the planned output of coke gas or
about 50 percent of the yield of one large coke-chemical plant. This will save
500,000 cubic meters of firewood, one million tons of coal, and 80,000 tons of
petroleum fuel, equalling 900,000 tons of standard fuel per year with a value
of 135 million rubles.
The use of coke gas can soon be adopted to a considerable extent in
Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozh'ye, Krivoy Rog, Dneprodzerzhinsk, Kerch', Yenakiyevo,
Voroshilovsk, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk, Stalinsk, and Nizhniy Tagil. A fur-
ther increase of the coke gas supply for city consumption is to be expected
as new coke-chemical plants are constructed.
Consumption of Coke Gas in the USSR
(in percent)
S o u t h
E a s t
Total for USSR
Type of Consumption
1940
1947
1948
1940
1947
1948
1940
1947
1948
Heating coking ovens
43.9
46.3
40.3
29.8
21.7
23.1
40.2
31.1
30.6
Other uses coke-chemical
plants
4.0
5.1
4.1
0.9
1.8
1.2
3.2
3.1.
2.4
Total for plant needs
47.9
51.4
44.4
30.7
23.5
24.3
43.4
34.2
33.0
Sales to metallurgical
plants
41.8
35.6
41.6
51.3
56.3
55.6
44.2
48.4
50.9
Sales to other consumers
8.7
9.0
9.1
.15.4
19.1
18.6
10.4
15.2
14.5
Losses and unused gas
1.6
4.0
1.9
2.6
1.1
1.5
2.0
2.2
1.6
USSR Coke Gas Consumption Compared With US and German Figures
(in percent)
Type of Consumption
USSR
USA
Germany
i9Z
1977
1943
Heating coking ovens
30.6
37.5
46.5
Other uses by coke-chemcial plants
2.4
3.8
772
Total for plant needs
33.0
41.3
53.7
Sales
65.4
57.5
46.3
City gas systems
0.4
20.0
6.7
Metallurgical industry
50.9
33.9
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