Abstract: A carbon baking furnace has at least one vertical baking shaft with a system and method for positioning green carbon bodies to be baked at the top of the vertical baking path and ringing the green carbon bodies with a sacrificial medium such as packing coke. The disclosure provides a system and method for controlling the delivery and removal of the sacrificial medium used to surround the carbon bodies within the baking paths. A volatile extraction system and method are provided. A system and method for unloading baked carbon bodies is disclosed.

Abstract: A carbon baking furnace has at least one vertical baking shaft with a system and method for positioning green carbon bodies to be baked at the top of the vertical baking path and ringing the green carbon bodies with a sacrificial medium such as packing coke. The disclosure provides a system and method for controlling the delivery and removal of the sacrificial medium used to surround the carbon bodies within the baking paths. A volatile extraction system and method are provided. A system and method for unloading baked carbon bodies is disclosed.

Abstract: A carbon baking furnace has at least one vertical baking shaft with a system and method for positioning green carbon bodies to be baked at the top of the vertical baking path and ringing the green carbon bodies with a sacrificial medium such as packing coke. The disclosure provides a system and method for controlling the delivery and removal of the sacrificial medium used to surround the carbon bodies within the baking paths. A volatile extraction system and method are provided. A system and method for unloading baked carbon bodies is disclosed.

Abstract: A carbon baking furnace has at least one vertical baking shaft with a system and method for positioning green carbon bodies to be baked at the tops of the vertical baking paths and ringing the green carbon bodies with a sacrificial medium such as packing coke. The disclosure provides a carbon baking furnace having a system and method for unloading baked carbon bodies at the bottom of an array of baking paths while supporting the column of carbon bodies remaining in the baking path. The disclosure provides a volatile extraction system that extracts volatile fumes from the upper portion of the furnace and introduces the volatile fumes to the burners in the baking portion of the furnace. This system allows the volatile fumes to be selectively directed to an afterburner and automatically delivered to the afterburner during an emergency.

Abstract: A carbon baking furnace comprising a refractory lined kiln defining a baking path, further comprising a means for substantially continuously receiving green carbon articles, means for packing said green carbon articles in a sacrificial medium, a means for substantially continuously displacement of the packed carbon articles through said baking path and a means for substantially continuously removing baked carbon articles from the kiln.