Abstract: A latch assembly is disclosed for latching a leveling door used to close a leveling rod opening which is surrounded by a seal in a leveling box at the upper portion of a coke-oven door. The latching assembly includes spaced apart side flanges connected together at one of their ends by a cross web. The opposite ends of the flanges carry a rod which, in one embodiment, engage claws on arms extending from the leveling box and in a second embodiment the is pivotally connected with arms extending from the leveling box. In the first embodiment, an arm extends from a leveling door and forms a pivotal connection with retaining members that are in turn, secured to a spring plate.

Abstract: A nozzle plate construction for underjet coke ovens for distributing and metering combustion-supporting air supplied upwardly to regenerators through a sole flue extending parallel to the chamber axis. The sole flue is closed at the top by plate elements having apertures therein. In accordance with the invention, the various plate elements are in the form of troughs having plane base plates each formed with one longitudinal gap therein. Associated with each longitudinal gap is a metering element so mounted at its ends so as to be adjustable in its distance from the plane of the base plate. In this manner, the air flowing upwardly into the regenerator sections can be accurately controlled and uniformly distributed. At the same time, the nozzle plate construction of the invention is light in weight while being very stable and easy to assemble.

Abstract: A ceramic, in particular refractory product is provided comprising a matrix material which contains pores and where the pores are obtained by driving off of opening materials. The product is characterized by pores which are of a flattened shape resulting from platelet shape or flake shape voids. The invention further provides a method for the production of the ceramic product, where a platelet shaped opening material is admixed to the ceramic raw material. The resulting products are characterized by advantageous strength and thermal insulation properties.

Abstract: A refractory brick is installed in a transfer flue with vertical orifices disposed between, on the one hand, the regenerators or recuperators and, on the other hand, the combustion chambers of industrial gas-fired systems, particularly a coke oven. The refractory brick has parallel surfaces and the length of the orifices in the brick is at least six times their diameter. The sum of the cross-sectional areas of the orifices is from 0.75 to 1.5 times the flow cross section of the upwardly-inclined portion of the transfer flue. The cross sections of the orifices can be cylindrical or elliptical. The orifices can be longitudinal slots whose cross-sectional areas are bounded by semicircles and whose cross-sectional length is not greater than three times the diameter of the semicircles.

Abstract: Means for cleaning the sealing surfaces of coke oven leveling doors and frames, the cleaning means being installed on a coke-pushing machine without any increase in the normal overall length thereof. A carriage extends between and is movable along guideways mounted on the side walls of a surrounding casing, the carriage being provided with liquid nozzles adapted to be directed at the sealing surfaces of the leveling door frame and the sealing surfaces of the leveling door when rotated upwardly. Nozzles are connected through hoses to a supply of high-pressure liquid, the arrangement being such that as the carriage moves along the guideways, high-pressure liquid issuing from the nozzles will clean the sealing surfaces of a leveling door frame and a leveling door when it is rotated upwardly.

Abstract: An improved coke oven gas washing process for removing hydrogen sulfide is proposed wherein the coke oven gas is treated in a hydrogen sulfide scrubber by counterflow with an aqueous ammonia wash water. A stream of aqueous weak ammonia liquor is cooled and sprayed through nozzles in the mid-region of the hydrogen sulfide scrubber. A quantity of aqueous ammonia liquor, corresponding to the quantity which is sprayed through the said nozzles, is withdrawn from the hydrogen sulfide scrubber at a level below the nozzles and is introduced into the top of the said hydrogen sulfide scrubber. Ammonia vapor released at the nozzles has a higher partial pressure than the ammonia partial pressure of the coke oven gas in the region of the nozzle. The aqueous ammonia liquor from the deacidifier is the source of the cooled aqueous ammonia liquor which is introduced through the nozzles.

Abstract: Hydrogen sulfide is first removed by ammoniacal liquor from coke oven gas in the bottom part of a gas scrubber. In the top part of the scrubber, two consecutively-arranged fine scrubbing stages remove hydrogen sulfide by treating the gases, in the upper stage, with a caustic soda solution or a caustic potash solution. Beneath the upper scrubbing stage is the second fine scrubbing stage fed with a subflow of an aqueous carbonate solution collecting at the outlet of the upper fine scrubbing stage and a subflow of cooled, regenerated carbonate solution discharged from the hydrogen-sulfide/hydrogen-cyanide stripper. From the hydrogen-sulfide/hydrogen-cyanide stripper, a second subflow is admixed with coal liquor for removing fixed ammonia therefrom in a separator. The separator produces water vapor with carbon dioxide vapors that are delivered to the hydrogen-sulfide/hydrogen-cyanide stripper for regenerating the aqueous carbonate washing solution.

Abstract: The stack cooler comprises a substantially vertical circular chamber with walls from refractory blocks or bricks. The chamber comprises an upper prechamber and disposed below it the quenching chamber proper, where the prechamber is provided with an upper conical section with a central charging opening. Gas exhaust discharge openings are provided in the transition region between prechamber and quenching chamber over the complete circumference at a distance from each other, which are joining to an annular collection channel running in the masonry. The masonry comprises an outer layer and an inner layer separate from the outer layer over the conical section and also over the cylindrical section disposed below the conical section. The inner layer adjoins at its lower end the masonry work of the wall in the area of the quenching chamber via support walls running between the gas exhaust discharge openings.

Abstract: A coal-leveling apparatus includes a leveling rod supported by a pressing machine for movement through a leveling opening into a mushroom-shaped gas-collecting space to level the coal charged in the coking chamber of a coke oven. The leveling rod includes a head element that carries two support members that can move on pivot levers between an operative position wherein the support members are extended from the head element for support by upwardly-inclined wall surfaces in the mushroom-shaped gas-collecting space. In the inoperative position, the support members are retracted toward both sides of the head element. An actuating rod extends through the leveling rod to the head element. In one embodiment, the actuating rod can be moved in opposite directions of its length. An end of each of the first pivot levers is connected to the actuating rod and the opposite ends of the first levers are connected to second pivot levers.

Abstract: There is disclosed a heating system for regeneratively heating a coke oven battery having twin-heating flues extending side-by-side transversely of the length of the coke oven battery. Halves of the twin-heating flues are separated by a flue midfeather that forms a gas flow space at the top thereof. Between twin-heating flues, there is a heating wall midfeather extending up to the oven crown. Regenerators below the oven sole extend transversely to the coke oven battery with each regenerator coupled by three passageways to the heating flues. Two regenerators are associated with each twin-heating flue. A first passageway extends to the bottom part of one-half of one twin-heating flue, a second passageway extends to the bottom part of one-half of an adjacent twin-heating flue with these two flue halves separated by a heating wall midfeather.

Abstract: By providing a single biasing element (spring) connected through pull rods to toggle means in laterally-inverted relationship, there are overcome the problems of (1) inequality of forces on the latching beams and (2) the need for relatively massive springs. The toggle means provide a force-multiplying effect. Moreover, no special actuating element is required for latching or unlatching.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed which guides material in strip form horizontally between vertically-disposed electrodes in an electrolytic coating, pickling or degreasing process. The electrodes are attached to two vertically-disposed insulated frames positioned on either side of the strip. At both ends of the frames, relative to the direction of movement, are pairs of rollers through which the strip passes before and after treatment. The frames are pressed together by means of two pairs of scissor arms which are secured to the frame at one end and at the other end are compressed by tensioning means. The apparatus is suspended by support arms, the bottom ends of which are pivotally connected to the pivot pins of the scissor arms with the top ends movably secured to the tank.

Abstract: A horizontal coke oven battery in which heating chambers between coking chambers are divided by midfeathers or header walls into vertically-extending heating flues. Extending upwardly through the midfeathers are feed flues which communicate with the regenerators of the coke oven battery and have feed flue outlets disposed at different heights in the heating flues. In this invention, the feed flue outlets comprise one or more vertically-extending elongated slots which facilitate "soft" combustion and flame formation, greatly reducing temperature peaks and nitrogen oxide formation.

Abstract: Hollow shaft members with orifices at different elevations throughout their heights are located in the heating flues of a coke oven battery. The shafts receive preheated gaseous combustion-supporting agents from the regenerators. Advantages include decreased midfeathers thickness, greater heating area, and having the possibility of rich-gas heating in which the flame is distributed over the whole height of the heating flue.

Abstract: To hold coke-oven doors so that they may be worked upon, apparatus is provided comprising a frame tiltable from an erect to a horizontal position, that frame having mounted within it a second frame which has two pairs of pockets which receive the ends of the door-lifting beams of the door to be worked upon; means are provided to hold at least one pair of ends of door-lifting beams of the door within pockets, and means are provided for pivoting the pocket-containing frame about its central longitudinal axis. Preferably, guide plates are associated with the above-mentioned pockets.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tubular device for preventing the egress of gases evolved in an oven chamber during the charging thereof. The tubular device is moved into an operative location forming a hermetic seal with leveling openings in the doors for two adjacent oven chambers, one of which is to receive a coal charge. The gases evolved during the charging operation pass into the adjacent oven chamber where carbonization has proceeded to an advanced state. The tubular device includes two tubular front parts engageable with the leveling openings of coke oven doors, a U-shaped connecting member, and a tubular rear part which is disposed to receive a leveler which can extend through the rear part and into an oven chamber. A flap is raised from a normally-closed position in the rear part of the device by movement of the leveler bar therein. A truck on which the tubular device is mounted can move in a direction of the oven chamber axis on tracks disposed on a frame for the leveler.

Abstract: In a coke dry shaft cooler having a smaller receiving chamber, and therebelow, a larger cooling chamber, a wear-resistant inward projection is provided at the transition between the two chambers to overcome difficulties caused by uneven particle distribution within the cooler.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating a biological sewage purification plant wherein the water to be treated is aerated in a tank containing bacteria by means of a rotating impeller or the like, characterized in that a heating medium, preferably steam, is fed onto the surface of the water to maintain it at the optimum temperature for facilitating decomposition by bacteria without excessive heating and resultant destruction of the bacteria.

Abstract: A process for the granulation of precipitation products, formed from the reaction of ammonium compounds with alkaline-earth compounds, by introducing into the bottom of a reaction chamber an ammonium and alkaline-earth compound such that the alkaline-earth compound in aqueous solution is immediately and intimately mixed with the ammonium compound to form alkaline-earth compound precipitation products in the form of hard granules which are difficultly soluble in water. The alkaline-earth precipitation products are easily withdrawn from the bottom of the reaction chamber without forming a lime sludge which is difficult to remove.

Abstract: A heating flue for a coke oven includes a wedge-shaped refractory brick having at least one oblique surface and vertical cylindrical bores when the brick is inserted into the vertical portion of a duct at the bottom of the heating flue. This part of the duct has an increased diameter to support the brick so that the vertical sides abut the inner duct walls and the bottom oblique surface extends toward the mouth of an obliquely-rising portion of the duct. The sum of the cross-sectional areas of the cylindrical bores in the brick is from 0.75 to 1.5 times the flow cross section of the obliquely-rising duct portion. The cross-sectional area of the top of a wedge-shaped brick which is coplanar with the flue base is in a range of between 20 and 200 with the cross section of the cylindrical bore in the brick. The diameter of the bore is between 10 and 60 millimeters. A ratio of 0.3 to 1.