Abstract: A process and system are disclosed for the bridging of operational standstills of an ammonia washer of a plant operating according to the semi-direct technique for the removal of ammonia from coking oven gas. During the operational standstills of the ammonia washer, the ammonia is washed out from the coking oven gas in a secondary cooler constituting three parts, an upper part (Wash Stage I) provided with stripped water from an ammonia still, a middle part (wash stage II) provided with gas water, and a lower part (wash stage III) provided with circulation water. All of the waters provided for the secondary cooler are collected in its sump, and after a separation of the circulation water necessary for the Wash Stage III, it is split into two partial streams, one serving for the recovery of stripped water for Wash Stage I and which is led into an ammonia still provided only with water vapor and the other partial stream is led into an ammonia still provided with water vapor and alkali.

Abstract: Cold, wet gypsum is admixed to a moving bed of hot solid particles of a heat-retaining material. The mixture is fed to a moving bed type drier where it is agitated while the released vapors are withdrawn. After discharge from the drier, dry gypsum is separated from the heating particles and the latter are recirculated into a heater. Preferably, flue gases from a combustion chamber are employed for heating the particles, which are preferably in the form of steel balls.

Abstract: A support for a battery of coking furnaces with regenerators has a plurality of waste heat passages formed beneath the regenerators and extending in a longitudinal direction of the battery, a foundation formed by a floor member and also by wall members of the waste heat passages, a further supporting plate slidingly supported on the walls and repeatedly subdivided transversely to the longitudinal direction of the battery so as to form a plurality of plate portions, and two longitudinal bars each located at a machine side and at a coke side of the battery and slidingly supported on consoles of the foundation, wherein each of the longitudinal bars engages the plate portions of the furnace supporting plate and fixes them in their positions.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for the elimination of waste water falling out with the desulfurization of coking oven gas by means of an organic oxygen carrier--containing washing solution with simultaneous recovery of elemental sulfur. The waste water is decomposed in a combustion chamber in a reducing atmosphere at temperatures between about 1000.degree. and 1100.degree. C. under such conditions that the mole ratio of H.sub.2 S:SO.sub.2 in the exhaust gas of the combustion chamber amounts to at least 2:1. Sulfur falling out is separated and the sensible heat of the exhaust gas is utilized for steam generation. The cooled and desulfurized exhaust gas is added to the coking oven gas before the pre-cooling. Sulfur falling out from the washing solution in the oxidizer is separated out and lead into the combustion chamber together with the part of the washing solution discharged as waste water from the washing solution circulation.

Abstract: Partial oxidation gases such as formed in a coal gasifier are passed into a mechanical dust separator and prior to their further treatment in a wet cleaner are then passed into a direct cooler where they are cooled to a temperature close to the dewpoint. The gases are thereafter cooled in an indirect cooler to a temperature which is about 5.degree. to 10.degree. C. above the water temperature at the entry into the cooler.

Abstract: A process and apparatus are provided controlling the heat input of an extractive distillation column. The bottom of the column is heated with a major stream of thermal energy which is either slowly varying in time or controlled by the amount of starting material mixture and with a minor stream of thermal energy which is controlled by sensing the thermodynamic state in the upper half of the column during the process. The major stream can provide about 90 percent and the minor stream about 10 percent of the heat fed to the column. The minor stream can be controlled by the temperature at one point in the upper half of the column, by the temperature difference at two points in the upper half of the column or by gas chromatographic analysis of the extract material concentration near the top of the column. The process allows one to keep a low concentration of the extract material in the raffinate.

Abstract: Cooling of a gas-permeable loose material having highly temperature-dependent coefficient of thermal conductivity is performed in a shaft-shaped chamber with use of a gaseous cooling medium so that the loose material is fed from above downwardly in a counter stream against a stream of the gaseous medium supplied from below upwardly. The stream of the gaseous medium is subdivided into two partial streams, and one of the partial streams is supplied into the lower part of the chamber, whereas the other of the partial streams is supplied into a region in which the loose material has at least a temperature above which the coefficient of thermal conductivity of the loose material in dependence upon the temperature greatly increases.

Abstract: In order to preserve the quality of treated coking coal, the drying and preheating operation is performed in consecutive stages. For this purpose, a set of superimposed containers is provided with vertically oriented pipes for a heating medium, the pipes in each container having separate inlets and outlets. The bottom region of each container is further provided with horizontally directed pipes having separate inlet and outlet for receiving a pressure medium which is discharged into the bottom region of each container to produce a whirling bed of the coal. In this manner, the coal is preliminarily dried in the uppermost container, then additionally dried and preheated in the intermediate container, and heated to the desired final temperature in the lowermost container.

Abstract: In a coking process, coal to be coked is preheated in a cascaded whirling bed drier into which the coal is charged from above and exposed to an indirect heat transfer while whirling in a coal-stream mixture. Hot gas applied to the heating pipes in respective cascades of the drier is branched off from the total amount of hot gases discharged from a dry cooler in which hot coke from the coke oven is cooled by recirculating cooler gas constituted by a partial gas stream discharged from the cascades of the drier and reunited with the other partial stream subject to a heat exchange for generating steam. Steam from the whirling beds is discharged from the cascaded drier, separated from the entrained dust particles, and then the excessive steam is drained in a branch conduit and the remaining steam is compressed and reintroduced into the lowermost whirling bed in the drier.

Abstract: A container for transporting hot coke has a cylindrical portion and a narrowing conical portion downwardly extended therefrom. A rotation ring carrying grippers is positioned in the upper region of the container, which is operated during the filling of the container with coke.

Abstract: In a coking oven with a horizontal chamber the chamber is provided with a filling hole having a cylindrical portion with the diameter D and a reduced portion downwardly extending therefrom into the chamber over the height H. The ratio between D and H.ltoreq.1.5.

Abstract: A transport container for transporting hot particulate materials, particularly coke, has a wall bounding an inner chamber for accommodating a hot particulate material and having an inner side, a coating arranged at the inner side of the wall and composed of a plurality of coating members, and holding elements provided on the inner side of the wall and having a plurality of openings, so that each of the coating members releasably engages in a respective one of the openings and is thereby held by the holding elements, so as to coat the inner side of the wall.

Abstract: A method of and a device for blast heating is described, employing separate indirect heat exchangers for combustion air and fuel gas fed to a regenerator and flue gases discharged from the regenerator. The indirect heat exchangers share heat-transfer liquid recirculating in a circuit in which an auxiliary heat exchanger is connected. In the latter exchanger, the temperature of transfer liquid is increased by combustion of partial streams of combustion air and fuel gas branched off downstream of the indirect heat exchangers. The temperature is increased to such a value which preheats the fuel gas to a temperature at which a substitution of fuel gas of a low calorific value, such as waste gas from a blast furnace, for fuel gas of high calorific value, is made possible.

Abstract: An arrangement for dry cooling of coke has a prechamber for a coke to be cooled with a prechamber wall, a cooler with a cooler wall, a plurality of connecting members connecting these walls with each other, so that a cooling gaseous medium can pass between the connecting members, and a plurality of throttling elements arranged between the connecting members and actuated from outside of the walls.

Abstract: Coal is pretreated for a coking plant so that it is passed in two stages through two throughflow driers successively connected with one another, the driers are supplied with a heat carrier formed by a steam overheated to a temperature between 400.degree. and 600.degree. C., dust is removed from the steam after passing the throughflow driers, and the steam is heated after the dust removal in a heat exchange with a circulating gas of a coke dry cooler.

Abstract: A travelling bed drier is disclosed, for operation of a carbonization or coking plant in which pre-heating of coal is performed. Adapted so that a fluidized bed drier can be superposed thereon, the travelling. bed drier possesses a heat exchange tube within a frame, the tube displaying a surface increased through suitable design such as fins or ribs, a conical tapering in the direction of the coal feed, and discharge connections located at different levels on a side of the frame lying opposite vapor or hot gas entry, the connections being for the discharge of exhaust gas-containing vapors.

Abstract: In a coking process, coal to be coked is preheated in a cascaded whirling bed drier into which the coal is charged from above and exposed to an indirect heat transfer while whirling in a coal-steam mixture. Hot gas applied to the heating pipes in respective cascades of the drier is branched off from the total amount of hot gases discharged from a dry cooler in which hot coke from the coke oven is cooled by recirculating cooler gas constituted by a partial gas stream discharged from the cascades of the drier and reunited with the other partial stream subject to a heat exchange for generating steam. Steam from the whirling beds is discharged from the cascaded drier, separated from the entrained dust particles, and then the excessive steam is drained in a branch conduit and the remaining steam is compressed and reintroduced into the lowermost whirling bed in the drier.

Abstract: A method for working up residues of an extractive distilling process for obtaining pure hydrocarbons. The residue from an extractive distilling column is fed to the about middle part of a distilling column. The hydrocarbons are distilled and removed at the head of the distilling column and the solvent is removed at the bottom of the distilling column. A sidestream is removed from the distilling column at a position above the feed plate for the residue from the extractive distilling column via a so-called reflux evaporator plate having an elevated level of liquid. The sidestream is heated by indirect heat exchange with the solvent flowing from the distilling column. The heated-up sidestream is fed back into the distilling column at a level at or above the reflux evaporator plate. The concentration of the solvent at the reflux evaporator plate is controlled by the amount of reflux at the head of the distilling column.

Abstract: A method and a device for feeding purging and degraphitizing air into pipes for rich gas leading to the heating walls of coke ovens. In the device a first cross-sectional opening is connected to a pipe for rich gas. This opening can be opened and closed with a first gate and is adapted to initially release only a relatively small cross-sectional aperture for passing purging air therethrough. A second cross-sectional opening is provided in the device, which is connected to the pipe for rich gas. The second opening can be opened and closed with a second gate and is adapted to release successively, with a time delay after the first cross-sectional opening, a relatively larger cross-section for passing degraphitizing air therethrough. An exchangeable screen can be placed in the aperture in the first cross-sectional opening. The degraphitizing air enters the pipe for burning off the graphite deposits resulting from the rich gas.

Abstract: A burner for gaseous and liquid fuels includes a hollow water cooled casing and a hollow water cooled jacket surrounding the casing. Two respective channels are formed in the burner for feeding fuel and oxygen-containing medium to a nozzle of the burner. The casing and the jacket form at their proximal ends a conical annular nozzle gap which receives a plurality of circumferentially distributed spacing elements. The spacing elements form between themselves a plurality of slots for discharging a combustible mixture of fuel and oxygen-containing medium from the nozzle gap. A heat-expansion compensator is provided in the burner which connects the casing with the jacket in axially prestressed position so that the casing is always in abutment with the jacket in the area of the nozzle gap via the spacing elements.