Abstract: The quenching apparatus includes a collector or receiver positioned above and connected to a quenching vessel. Incandescent coke pushed from a coke oven is deposited in the receiver and fed at a controlled rate from the receiver into the upper portion of the quenching vessel. Nozzles positioned adjacent the top of the quenching vessel spray quenching water on the incandescent coke as it is introduced into the quenching vessel. A suction device is provided adjacent the lower portion of the quenching vessel to draw the vaporized quenching water downwardly through the bed of quenched coke in the quenching vessel and discharge the quenching vapors to the atmosphere. The bed of quenched coke serves as a filter to remove the particulate material from the quenched water vapor.