Where there’s fire, there’s also water. Lots of water. To cool a blast furnace, which can reach temperatures of 2400 degrees Celsius, some 72,000 cubic metres of water a day are needed. The large radiators of the cooling plant were used to cool the water which had been heated up so that it could then be fed back into the process. The round clarifying tank, now overgrown with purple flowering plants, was used to clean the water needed to ‘wash’ the blast furnace gas. From this spot you can enjoy a wonderful view across the backdrop of the blast furnaces in the Landscape Park.