Hannibal, OH: Long Ridge Energy to burn Hydrogen as well as Natural Gas

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safe_image for Ohio power plant under construction adding hydrogen to fuel mix along with natural gas [paycount 5]
Dennis DeBruler: So they plan to use electricity from solar and wind to split water into hydrogen and oxygen so that they can burn hydrogen to generate electricity for the grid. Why not just feed the solar and wind electricity to the grid? The salt caverns would be the key. At 100%, this would not be an electricity generating plant but an electricity storage facility to help with the cloudy days, etc. If this is the cheapest solution for electricity storage, than storage is a real issue. Also note that the GE turbines can handle just 20% hydrogen. The next sentence that talks about scaling up to 100% doesn't mention the expense of rebuilding or replacing the turbines. Also, everybody is ignoring the incredible danger of handling hydrogen. Someone told me that an oil refinery precisely monitors the flow in its hydrogen pipes to detect leaks. If there is a small hole in a pipe, the jet of hydrogen burns so cleanly that a guy could walk into the jet and be sliced in half before he knew what was happening.

It is a $800m, 485 MW power plant. I assume this plant was originally built because it is close to the Marcellus and Utica shale in East Ohio and the West Virginia panhandle that fracking made productive. But that gas is "wet." Can this plant burn wet gas?

The fad of using the wet gas to make plastic with an ethane cracker has cooled off. The salt caverns that were going to be used for ethane storage for a petrochemical complex have been offered to store hydrogen and/or gas for this project. But the caverns could also support the ethane cracker if it ever does get off the drawing board.

From a satellite image, they are obviously building on brownland. The 1,600-acre site had been used by the Ormet aluminum smelter that once had 1,100 workers. It closed in 2013. It looks like quite a bit of the land has already been redeveloped. This facility must store something that is barged in and then barged back out. But I can't figure out what they are storing.

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It seems the satellite image is out-of-date and this facility now has the capability to transload between unit trains and barges. And that those buildings may be storing fracking sand.

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Havana, IL: Five Grain Elevators

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Cargill South: (Satellite)

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Unknown: (Satellite) This may have been replaced by the Sunrise FS facility just downstream

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Overview

ADM just to the left of the pier and then South and North Cargill.

Jack Tanner Towing posted
Bridge inspections.

Two photos posted by Jack Tanner Towing concerning the flood of 2013.

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[This is during the 2013 flood. The marker that is almost covered is 45'.]
Evan Houghton: Its the highest this bridge has ever seen.
David A. Upp: I have never seen it get to what i know as cargill north's scale house, wow.
[This was one of the comments that taught me the names of Cargill North and Cargill South.]

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Jack Tanner Towing posted, cropped
Harvest may be over but December grain is still in full swing! (Picture looking North at the Scott Lucas Bridge with ADM North loading dock in the foreground, Cargill North in the background and Cargill South in between.)

This shows all five elevagtors.

One of 50 photos posted by Jack Tanner Towing, cropped

Jack Tanner Towing has two harbor towboats and a bunch of anchors along the west shore to hold fleets of barges. They break apart line tows, deliver barges to customers when they are needed and build up line tows.

Jack Tanner Towing posted
We have more than a few barges in the fleet today!! 100 to be exact!

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Four photos posted by Jack Tanner Towing concerning the flood of 2013.

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Two photos posted by Jack Tanner Towing concerning the flood of 2013.

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Three photos posted by Jack Tanner Towing concerning the flood of 2013.

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Jack Turner Towing posted three photos with the comment:

Imperial Dock at the FS plant unloading it's first ever shipment of Urea. They will be used in a new system put in that will create DEF here in Havana. At full capacity they will be going through 1 barge a month. (Urea is used in SNCR and SCR reactions to reduce the NOx pollutants in exhaust gases from combustion from Diesel, dual fuel, and lean-burn natural gas engines. Trucks and cars using these catalytic converters need to carry a supply of diesel exhaust fluid (DEF, also known as AdBlue), a mixture of urea and water.)

[Note the ground pile is full on Feb 15, 2017.]

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I had noticed from the satellite image that this facility was unloading "brown stuff" into trucks. As a farm supply facility, they would handle dry fertilizer. A urea plant provides an even bigger market for the transloading facility. I captured a satellite image because it shows an excavator actively unloading a barge into a truck and several trucks queued up to unload corn. The barge will probably be filled with corn before it leaves.

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Another photo showing the ground pile being used.

Jack Turner Towing posted
The M/V Pat Pickett showing how big the M/V Kevin Michael [177' x 42'] really is while taking on fuel.
[The triple-screw M/V Dan Macmillan (190' x 54') is an even bigger towboat that has visited Havana.]

A video of potash fertilizer being unloaded.

This facility and the apparent abandoned facility is on the right.

Jack Tanner Towing posted
A chilly week on the river, hopefully next week is warmer!! [Jan 5, 2018]
[This also caught the elevator with a full ground pile.]

Randolph C: Sparta, IL: Consol/Truax Burning Star #3 Coal Mine

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William J. Beck posted seven photos with the comment: "In 1975 Consolidation Coal's Burning Star #3 mine was moving their Marion 5860 (80 cu yd bucket) stripping shovel to the other end of the pit. Fortunately the machine was on solid coal, unfortunately a large rainfall occurred. The highwall became saturated and slide into the pit and onto the shovel covering the crawlers. As you can see in one of the photos, a set of crawlers were disconnected until it could be repaired, if the crawlers were fully operational they maybe could have powered through the dirt, instead they had to dig it out."

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The tree line of the spur from the UP/MoPac/Missouri-Illinois/Illinois Southern mainline is still very visible.

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All of the green in this excerpt was the mine.

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This was the extent of the mine by 1970.

1970 Walsh Quadrangle @ 1:24,000

George Louis posted
CONSOL Burning Star #3 Baseball cap.... 1,000,000 man hours without a lost time injury (June 1977)

William J. Beck posted six photos with the comment: "Here are a few more photos from Consolidation Coal's Burning Star #3 mine taken October 1974. The Marion 5860 stripping shovel was down for some repairs and I took the opportunity to walk up the boom to the point sheaves (approximately 160 feet above the coal seam). A Bucyrus Erie 1150 dragline (a 28 cu yd bucket if I remember correctly) is operating is another pit at the mine. Coal loading was done by a Marion 181 shovel."

Dennis DeBruler shared with the comment: "Burning Star #3 was southwest of Sparta, IL, and operated during 1966-82."

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William J. Beck posted four photos with the comment: "A few more photos from Consolidation Coal Company's Burning Star #3 located south of Sparta Illinois. The BE 1150 dragline (23 cu yd bucket) was down for repair and the photos were taken from the point sheaves of the boom. The photos were taken October 1974."

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William J. Beck posted three photos with the comment: "For the dragline fans, here are a few photos of the BE 1150 dragline at Consolidation Coal Company's Burning Star #3 mine located south of Sparta, Illinois. The photos were taken around June 1975. The dragline has a 23 cu yd bucket."

Dennis DeBruler shared

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William J. Beck posted two photos with the comment: "A couple more photos of the pit for the Marion 5860 (80 cu yd bucket) at Consolidation Coal's Burning Star #3 mine located south of Sparta Illinois. The photos were taken around June 1975. The first photo shows the overburden shot and ready for the stripping shovel. The shovel will travel on a full pit of coal and then tail into stripping the shot overburden and casting it into the area where the coal has been removed. The second photo shows the Marion 181 coal loader loading coal in the pit. Ideally, the pit would be straight, but you can see the inside and outside curves of the pit. Also, by using the Robbins horizontal drill with some difficulty getting a constant depth and angle in the pit, coupled with the inefficient placement of the explosives, the highwall was not straight. With a vertical overburden drill the progression of a straight highwall could easily be attained."

Dennis DeBruler shared

Myron Dudenbostel: Notice the water truck in the lower photo....

Myron Dudenbostel: Top photo.. East end of the pit...

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William J. Beck posted diagrams and specifications for the Marion 5860 shovel and 5872 WX.