LIGNITE REFINING AT "SCHWARZE PUMPE"

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R003700140001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 1, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Lignite Refining at "ISchwarze
Ponipe"
DATE OF INFO.
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DATE ACQUIRED
REPORT
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
1. A settlement for the 16,000 workers and administrative employees of 9BSch .rze
Pumpe" is to be built near the plant in proximity of HIoyersaerda. A trolley
will operate between.., Hoyer saver da and the plant.
2. About 4,000,000,000 cubic meters of gas under 25 at{- and a speed. of 10 meters
per second are to be piped through two welded steel pipes with a 3-meter diam-
eter each. As a buffer, a storage unit (gasometer) will be placed between the
gas production plant and the pressure pipeline. The problem of setting this
up has not yet been solved, since this will mean the stor?a.ge of enormous quan
tities of gas. Neither has the problem been: solved concerning an explosion.
proof flow of gas through two preset re pipes measuring 3 cubic meters in diam~
eter. Since no gas-air mixture must develops the pipelines should receive a
charge of nitrogen of which, however, great quantities would' be needed.
3. Production of the planned 2,500,000 tons of metallurgical coke per year, would
require the coking of 1000 tons of high grade lignite per hots..
4. It is planned -to fire the boilers of the 3 planned power plan-Its with the, lignite
of inferior quality.
5. Preparations for the construction of lignite mines are underway.
6. The problem of 'the disposal of the waste water bearing traces of phencl remains
unresolved.
Cosmients East Germany cannot fill the requirements for the large quern.--
tities of steel for the completion of this project from its orn resources.
Neither can East Germany produce the seamless pipe capeable Of resistirxg tem-
peratures above 2500 C and pressures above 259 at,, For these products East
Germany will be dependent on imports from the West
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