Abstract: A process of treating a coke oven door and jamb with a material containing micron colloidal particles of graphite in a liquid carrier is described that forms a penetrating and surface coating on the coke oven doors and jambs which acts to prevent leakage of tar and other coke by-products as heretofore common in the art and the resultant inability of maintaining a sealing relation between the door and jamb.

Abstract: Cooling water for cooling coke in a coking drum is charged into the interior of the coking drum from a plurality of orifices located on the lateral surfaces of the coking drum so as to uniformly distribute the cooling effect provided by the cooling water.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with an apparatus for scraping the bottom wall of a coke oven chamber adjacent the chamber opening so as to remove deposits which would otherwise prevent the sealing insertion of the chamber door into the opening. The apparatus has a support which can be inserted into and withdrawn from the chamber opening. A scraping tool is mounted on the support so that it can pivot between an upwardly tilted position which it assumes as the apparatus is being inserted into the chamber opening, and a downwardly tilted position in which a horizontally extending scraping edge of the tool engages the bottom wall of the coke oven chamber to scrape away deposits therefrom as the support is withdrawn from the chamber opening. A biasing arrangement biases the scraping tool into engagement with the bottom wall when the scraping tool is in the downwardly pivoted position.

Abstract: A tool provided with a scraping edge is mounted on a support so that it can pivot about a substantially horizontal axis between a lower starting position, an upper end position and one or more intermediate positions in which the scraping edge of the tool engages the bottom surface of a coke oven door plug to scrape deposits off the same. An arrangement is provided for urging the tool towards its upper end position and thereby to make the scraping edge engage the bottom surface of the plug, and a tracking device prevents engagement of the scraping edge with the bottom surface of the plug unless the scraping edge is away from the region where the coke oven door is provided with a door seal.

Abstract: A cleaner for ascension pipes is mounted onto a carriage that is movable on top of a coke oven battery alongside ascension pipes of coke oven chambers in the battery. The cleaner includes a flexible member, anchored at one end to the carriage, and carrying, at the other end, a nozzle block and nozzles. The flexible member is supported by rotatable members, pivotally mounted to the carriage, with one rotatable member being power driven. Means is provided for pivoting the arm to which the powered rotatable member is mounted.The flexible member supports a flexible fluid-carrying hose that connects to the nozzle block and that carries fluid to the nozzles mounted therein. By actuating the power driven rotatable member, the nozzle block and nozzles are reciprocable in the ascension pipes and fluid carried in the hose washes encrusted material from the inner surface of the ascension pipes.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for removing tarry deposits from the sealing surface of coke oven doors. At least the lowermost portion of the sealing surface is cleaned by reciprocating, fan-shaped, high pressure water jets, directed so as to undercut the tarry deposit. Removal of the deposits from the side portions of the sealing surface may be accomplished by the use of movable scraper blades which on encountering a hard deposit are adapted to be pressed more firmly into the deposit.

Abstract: In a coke oven battery, a part of the waste heat gas is recycled to mix with and dilute the rich fuel heating gas, using conduits and valve mechanisms outside the brickwork constituting the battery proper.

Abstract: A method for removing carbon scale, comprising permeating carbonate or bicarbonate into the carbon scale formed on a metal surface of a heating furnace, reactor or the like in a chemical plant by bringing the former into contact with the latter and decomposing the thus treated scale through oxidation by applying heat.

Abstract: Coke is removed from a cyclone vapor outlet by continuously introducing a stream of relatively low pressure steam into a vapor outlet, adding a stream of high pressure steam to the low pressure stream, subsequently adding a stream of high pressure water to the high pressure steam, and discontinuing the introduction of high pressure steam. After the desired amount of coke has been removed from the outlet by thermal shocking, the introduction of high pressure water is discontinued. Thereafter, if desired, low pressure air may be introduced into the low pressure steam to control coke deposition by localized combustion.

Abstract: The arrangement comprises a working member formed by a pair of intercommunicating nozzles of which one nozzle comprises a bellmouth mounted above the oven platform with a certain spacing, facing with its enlarged portion the bottom part of the oven and intimately adjoining this part upon engaging the oven, and the second nozzle is of cylindrical shape and has an ejector communicated with a compressed gas source for reducing pressure within the nozzles, whereby the first nozzle functions as a suction nozzle to collect the remainders of coke from the platform, and the second nozzle functions as a delivery nozzle to project the collected remainders of coke into the oven chamber.

Abstract: An improved by-product coke oven wherein the ends are heated through the doors or jambs to prevent condensation of the tar and the deposit of carbon and coal. This improved coke oven possesses improved sealing features and minimizes pollution during coking and during the extraction of the doors.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for removing carbon deposits from the inner surfaces of a coke oven gas offtake by introducing steam into the gas offtake in an amount and under conditions sufficient to remove at least a portion of said carbon. The steam may be introduced either countercurrent to, or in the direction of, the flow of the gases exiting through the gas offtake.

Abstract: In one embodiment valve means are provided in the pipe connecting the fuel gas main and air supply main to the respective headers to simultaneously supply a portion of the air to the headers associated with the "on" flues and a portion of the air to the headers associated with the "off" flues. The air supplied to the headers associated with the "on" flues mixes with and dilutes the rich fuel gas to suppress the tendency to deposit carbon in the vertical riser ducts of the "on" flues. The air supplied to the headers associated with the "off" flues removes the carbonaceous material deposited in the vertical riser ducts of the "off" flues. In another embodiment induction or recirculation ducts are provided between the vertical riser ducts of interconnected flues to admix a portion of the waste gas from the "off" flues with the rich fuel gas flowing upwardly through the vertical riser ducts of the "on" flues.

Abstract: Apparatus adapted to reduce emissions from the doors of coke ovens and the like includes a separate fume collecting hood positioned above each oven door, manifolds connected therewith and with a suction fan and gas cleaner, a valve in each hood, a series of nozzles for an aspirating fluid spaced along each oven door jamb, supply pipes therefore and a supply main, valves in the supply pipes, a closed coke guide adapted to be positioned against an oven being pushed, and spring-urged means carried by the end of the coke guide adapted to seal the guide to the oven.