Abstract: A coke oven, comprises a housing having an interior vertically elongated coke oven chamber with a plurality of vertically extending binding walls subdividing the oven chamber into a plurality of heating flues. A nozzle in each of the binder walls between the heating flues discharges a rich gas into each flue. In addition, the binder walls contain respective first and second vertical air ducts arranged in alternate binder walls between the flues with alternate ones of the air ducts having discharges at one or more levels above the others of each binder duct wall and connecting into the flues on each side of the associated binding wall. An air duct supply is connected separately to the alternate ones in each of the other air supply ducts.

Abstract: Bunker for supplying alternatively either hot, dry coal or cold, wet coal to a charging hopper or test bunkers of a plurality of coke ovens in a coke oven battery, comprises, a bunker housing having an inlet adjacent its top for charging coal and a lower portion with a plurality of downwardly opening coke oven discharge spouts corresponding to the number of charging hoppers and test bunkers. An inert gas feed line includes a portion branching off to the vicinity of each spout and provided with a plurality of feeder lines at the lower end of the spout and which also includes a plurality of spray nozzles in the line for directing a water spray in the direction of the inert gas flow.

Abstract: A method of decomposing ammonia fumes which have a high hydrogen sulfide content, in particular, deacidizer fumes from an NH.sub.3 --H.sub.2 S closed-circuit scrubber of coke oven gases, in which the washed-out NH.sub.2 is enriched. The inventive method comprises burning a heating fuel with an amount of oxygen to generate combustion gases having a low oxygen content, heating the deacidizer fumes by direct contact with the combustion gases in order to form a hot mixture of the gases and deacidizer fumes and subsequently directing the hot mixture through a decomposition zone. In addition the ammonia fumes are directed in an annular jacket around the housing to an annular discharge at the periphery of the coke oven gas flame.

Abstract: A regenerator lining for regenerator chamber cells in coke ovens, comprises a stone or brickwork having either a honeycomb or lamellar structure, with a plurality of gas passages extending therethrough and terminating in openings on the top and bottom sides of the structure. The transverse portions or sides are made of frame portions having a material thickness of up to 20mm. The webs or spacing between the openings is up to 10mm in thickness. In the case of circular, hexagonal, or similar shape passages, the openings have diameters of up to 16mm and in a construction which includes a slot formation, the slots are made up to 16mm wide.

Abstract: A combined control device for the operation of coke oven batteries which includes both a part for converting from heating with a strong gas to a lean gas, and vice versa, and a part for switching the regenerative heating system from one group of heating flues to another, comprises a support frame on which is mounted a rotary switching control cylinder and a rotary conversion control cylinder in end-to-end relationship and for rotation around the same axis. The rotary conversion control cylinder is displaceable in respect to the rotary switching control cylinder, and the two cylinders may be coupled together for rotation together or the conversion cylinder may be shifted axially so that it will not rotate with the switching control cylinder. The switching control cylinder is driven at one side from a motor driven transmission which also permits the manual operation of the cylinders.

Abstract: A settling unit for coke quenching water, which is circulated in a closed cycle, comprises a settling basin having substantially vertical side walls with a drain surface sloping downwardly alongside one of the sidewalls and a conduit for the quenching water disposed between the drain and the sidewall in a position to supply quenching water to the settling basin along the entire width of the sidewall and also to receive drained water from the drain surface. A trackway is defined above the basin and the drain surface and it includes a dredging carriage which is movable therealong having a dredging bucket which may be manipulated to pick up the solids from the basin or from the drain surface and to deposit them on the drain surface as necessary.

Abstract: A method of producing blast furnace coke from bituminous coals, particularly coals having poor coking capacities in which the coal to be carbonized is ground, predried or preheated, mixed with binders, compressed or formed into briquets having small mechanical resistances and charged into oven chambers, is characterized by fine coals or fine coal mixtures having a swelling index in mixture according to DIN 51741, smaller than 7, and preferably, below 6, and comprising more than 50% of poorly or non-baking coal having a content of volatile matter in excess of 30% or less than 20% which coals or coal mixtures are ground up to attain asurface per unit mass, according to DIN 66145, of from 400 cm.sup.2 to 1200 cm.sup.2 per gram, and with from 3% to 8% by weight of organic binders, compressing the mixture to form it into a briquet at a temperature range of from 70.degree. C. to 300.degree. C.

Abstract: A method of decomposing ammonia fumes which have a high hydrogen sulfide content, in particular, deacidizer fumes from an NH.sub.3 -H.sub.2 S closed-circuit scrubber of coke oven gases, in which the washed-out NH.sub.3 is enriched. The inventive method comprises burning a heating fuel with an amount of oxygen to generate combustion gases having a low oxygen content, heating the deacidizer fumes by direct contact with the combustion gases in order to form a hot mixture of the gases and deacidizer fumes and subsequently directing the hot mixture through a decomposition zone. A burner for decomposing the ammonia fumes comprises a cylindrical housing which has a closed end wall and an opposite opened end. A tube sheet is situated in the housing spaced from the closed end to define a combustion air chamber therein into which combustion air is fed for passage through a plurality of tubes which extend through the tube sheet and terminate in combustion air discharges at their opposite ends.

Abstract: A coke oven construction for the fastening of furnace door frames to the armor of horizontal, blockwise arranged coke oven furnaces, comprises a furnace which has an armor plate with a portion offset inwardly toward the furnace which carries a furnace frame which is sealed to the armor plate. A metal plate overlies the portion of the armor plate which extends outwardly from the frame and it has an edge which projects from the armor plate in a direction toward the frame. A hooked member is engaged over the edge of the plate and an eye bolt is threaded into the hooked member and provides a bolt for the pivotal mounting of a toggle which has one arm which bears against the frame and another arm which extends upwardly alongside an anchor stand which is mounted over the plate of the armor.

Abstract: Method of keeping sprinkling water used for sprinkling in the uptakes of coke ovens in a clean condition, comprises directing the sprinkling water condensate which is collected after circulation in the uptakes, and which includes tar, tar oils, hydrocarbons and ammonia, into a separator to separate a clean sprinkling liquid therefrom, and returning this liquid to the flue and also directing a tar which is free of solids into the flue with the sprinkling liquid, at least during an initial period of operation of the coking oven.

Abstract: A method of removing ash components from coals, particularly high-ash content coals, comprises grinding the coal into ground particles and suspending the ground coals in an aqueous alkali carbonate solution. The solution is maintained in a reactor for 45 to 120 minutes at a temperature range of from 250.degree. to 280.degree. C and under a pressure of from 50 to 80 atm in order to cause the CO.sub.2 to be set free by dissociation. The CO.sub.2 is discharged from the reactor by directing an inert gas stream through the reactor and discharging the CO.sub.2 with the gas stream. The suspension is stirred and agitated at elevated temperatures and increased pressures in order to fuse the ashes. The aqueous solution containing the dissolved ash components is then separated from the coal. The removed carbon dioxide is introduced into a solution for reforming the alkali carbonate in order to cause the contents of the solution to become insoluble and separated and the alkali solution to become regenerated.

Abstract: A method of removing ash components from coals, particularly high-ash bituminous and sub-bituminous coals, comprises grinding the coals and suspending the ground coal in an aqueous media to form a raw suspension, fusing the raw suspension and without further additives stirring for 60 to 360 minutes at from 250.degree. C to 350.degree. C and at a pressure of from 50 to 80 atm. Thereupon, the fused suspension is cooled and the pressure thereof is relieved. The aqueous phase containing the dissolved ash components are separated from the coal.

Abstract: The device for pushing incandescent coke out of individual chambers of a coke oven battery which has a plurality of horizontally arranged coke oven chambers, comprises a trackway of spaced apart inboard and outboard tracks which extend along the length of the coke oven battery and a gantry-like carriage which is movable over the trackway and carries the apparatus for pushing the coke out of the individual batteries. The carriage includes inboard legs which are elastically connected to a platform portion which contains the movable ram and other operating parts and outboard legs which are rigidly connected to the platform. The outboard legs also carry contact pressure mechanisms which connect between the legs and the outboard tracks for distributing horizontal stresses to the tracks.

Abstract: A wharf for receiving glowing coke, comprises an inclined receiving ramp which has a plurality of non-conducting areas and conductive plates interposed in the conductive areas at spaced locations. An electrical circuit control means is connected to each of the plates and provides a potential on the plates which will vary in accordance with the presence of coke over the plates. The electrical circuit also includes a control for effecting a control pulse in accordance with the potential sensed for carrying out a subsequent operation, such as the positioning or withdrawal of a rake element at the bottom of the wharf which supports the coke. With the method, by subjecting the conductive plates to an electrical potential, and by sensing the change in the potential, it is possible to regulate the amount of covering of the coke on the wharf.

Abstract: A method for the indirect cooling of hot gases, particularly, coke oven gases using a gas cooler having a cooling chamber with three different heat exchangers arranged therein, comprises directing the gases to be cooled through first one of the heat exchangers while circulating a coolant through the first heat exchanger which comprises a heater agent taken from the desorber stage of an absorber-desorber-type refrigerating machine. The gases are then directed through the second heat exchanger while circulating ordinary cooling water therethrough and, thereafter, the gases are directed through a third heat exchanger while the heating agent from an evaporator stage of the refrigerating machine is circulated through the third heat exchanger.