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: 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: A heating flue for a coke oven includes a flow plate to replace the base in the heating flue. The thickness of the flow plate is greater than the thickness of the flue base and disposed above a chamber which is divided into two halves in a gas-tight manner by a central web of refractory material. Each chamber communicates with ducts that feed preheated air from regenerators during rich-gas firing and feed preheated air and lean gas during firing with lean gas. The height of the chamber to the thickness of the flow plate is a ratio within 0.3 to 0.7, preferably 0.5. The flow plate has a plurality of bores each with a cross-sectional area which, when compared with the cross-sectional area of the plate, forms a ratio of between 20 and 200, preferably 30 to 60. The diameter of a cylindrical bore is between 10 and 60 millimeters, preferably 20 and 50 millimeters.

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: 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.

Abstract: A spray nozzle for use in the elbow interconnecting a coke oven ascension pipe and a main, characterized in having frusto-conical nozzle orifices to generate sprays which commpletely cover the elbow cross section only when they reach the transition between the elbow and the coke oven main. The invention resides in the realization that in order to optimize the performance of the nozzle, there must be a specified relationship between the inlet diameters of the frusto-conical orifices, the outlet diameters of the orifices and the radial and circumferential distances between the centers of orifices arranged in concentric circles.

Abstract: A spray nozzle for use in the elbow interconnecting a coke oven ascension pipe and a main, characterized in having frusto-conical nozzle orifices which generate sprays which completely cover the elbow cross section only when they reach the transition between the elbow and the coke oven main.

Abstract: To quench hot coke it is delivered to the surface of water in a tank, where the coke floats. The coke is carried along the surface of the water until it becomes saturated and sinks, whereupon it is removed from the tank. The water adhering to the removed coke is allowed to evaporate.