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Inside the exhauster building, Kaiserstuhl III coke plant, Dortmund, Germany. Most likely, the machinery shown here are condensers, but I am not sure. Exhausters or Gassauger are fans producing a mechanical draught in the Gasvorlage, tubes collecting the coke gas rising from the ovens, making it available for further processing.

This equipment does not only look brand-spanking-new, it also is brand-spanking-new. Its sale to China has been a then much hailed decision to finally get rid of this kind of industry in our region. Currently, the responsibles are having daily meetings in which they whip each other for their indescribable stupidity. Then, they creep back into their offices where they watch the coke price jump from one all-time-high to the next.