Coke-oven Type Patents (Class 202/248)
  • Patent number: 11643602
    Abstract: Systems and methods for removing carbonaceous clinker material from a coke oven are described. A coke oven can be provided including an oven floor, coke, and clinker material deposited on the oven floor. After a temperature of the coke oven has reached a first temperature (e.g., after heating coal in the oven to produce coke), the method includes increasing the temperature of the coke oven to a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature for a predetermined amount of time. After the predetermined amount of time, the temperature is reduced to a third temperature that is lower than the first temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SUNCOKE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventors: John Francis Quanci, Daniel C. Charles, Gary Dean West, Sharla Evatt, Mark Anthony Ball, Jason Francis Crum
  • Patent number: 10030199
    Abstract: A pyrolysis apparatus, including a retort tube in a closed loop configuration the retort tube defining a single entrance point and two exit points, a vortex separator joined to retort tube; and a plurality of fins positioned in spiraling rows about the retort tube, the fins extending through and sealed to a wall of the retort tube, the fins simultaneously extending beyond either side of the wall and being positioned to be a static mixer inside and outside the retort tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: BIXBY ENERGY SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: David E. Hayward, Sherman Aaron
  • Patent number: 9809092
    Abstract: A door impact beam for a vehicle includes a beam main body 2 and an attaching portion 3 formed of first and second brackets 4 and 5, the first bracket 4 is coupled to the second bracket 5 by a coupling portion 20 to enable absorbing a relative movement due to difference in thermal expansion between the beam main body 2 and the components 6 of the vehicle door, a first locking hole 11 is bored in one of the first and second brackets 4 and 5 and a second locking hole 12 is bored in the other bracket, the first and second locking holes 11 and 12 are adapted to be locked by a temporarily fixing member 13 at a normal temperature and the temporarily fixing member 13 is adapted to be softened at a predetermined temperature or higher, and the second locking hole 12 includes an engaging hole 12a adapted to be engaged with the temporarily fixing member at a normal temperature and a slit 12b which is smaller in width than the maximum inner diameter of the engaging hole 12a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sango Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiki Kato
  • Patent number: 9193914
    Abstract: A coke oven door includes a mainframe, a diaphragm assembly coupled with the mainframe, and a plurality of load-exerting assemblies attached to the mainframe. The diaphragm assembly includes a pan and a sealing edge structure attached to the pan. The sealing edge structure includes a load-receiving surface, a door-sealing surface spaced from the load-receiving surface, and a plurality of scallops spaced from one another. Each of the load-exerting assemblies is positioned and configured to selectively, operably apply a load to the load-receiving surface of the sealing edge structure. The scallops are configured and positioned to facilitate deflection of the sealing edge structure, in response to loads applied to the load-receiving surface, such that the door-sealing surface is configured to be positioned in contacting, and at least substantially sealing, engagement with a door jamb of a coke oven body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Trident Fluid Power, LLC
    Inventor: Carl James Morrell
  • Patent number: 8821693
    Abstract: A heat-resistant door device for closing a horizontal coke oven chamber is made of a refractory material, using a material containing silica or a material containing silica and aluminum oxides, in particular. The material has a low temperature expansion coefficient and it is thermally well insulating so that the door is not deformed and/or distorted during the coal carbonization process. The door device is built of a coke oven wall mainly located above the door and embracing the door as well as of a mobile door located underneath. Thereby less cold ambient air enters into the coke oven chamber and radiation losses are minimized. The door may be comprised of an ellipsoidal bulge by which the coke can be better pushed into the coking chamber. The oven wall embracing the oven door can also be made of a refractory material containing silica or of a material containing silica and aluminum oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH
    Inventors: Ronald Kim, Werner Hippe, Ulrich Kochanski
  • Publication number: 20140202846
    Abstract: A coke oven door includes a mainframe, a diaphragm assembly coupled with the mainframe, and a plurality of load-exerting assemblies attached to the mainframe. The diaphragm assembly includes a pan and a sealing edge structure attached to the pan. The sealing edge structure includes a load-receiving surface, a door-sealing surface spaced from the load-receiving surface, and a plurality of scallops spaced from one another. Each of the load-exerting assemblies is positioned and configured to selectively, operably apply a load to the load-receiving surface of the sealing edge structure. The scallops are configured and positioned to facilitate deflection of the sealing edge structure, in response to loads applied to the load-receiving surface, such that the door-sealing surface is configured to be positioned in contacting, and at least substantially sealing, engagement with a door jamb of a coke oven body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: TRIDENT FLUID POWER, LLC
    Inventor: Carl James Morrell
  • Publication number: 20140183023
    Abstract: The present technology is generally directed to systems and methods for controlling air distribution in a coke oven. In a particular embodiment, a coke oven air distribution system comprises an oven chamber having an oven floor configured to support a coal bed, a plurality of sidewalls extending upward from the oven floor, and an oven crown covering a top portion of the oven chamber. The air distribution system further includes an air inlet positioned above the oven floor and a distributor proximate to the inlet. The inlet is configured to introduce air into the oven chamber and the distributor is configured to at least one of preheat, redirect, or spread air within the oven chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SUNCOKE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT LLC.
    Inventors: John Francis Quanci, Mark Anthony Ball, Chun Wai Choi, Rajat Kapoor
  • Patent number: 8568568
    Abstract: A coking oven has a battery of longitudinally extending and transversely spaced coking chambers each provided with a plurality of downwardly open and longitudinally spaced filling holes. Coal is charged into the chambers through the respective filling holes. A respective longitudinally movable leveling rod in each of the chambers can level coal charged by the filling equipment into the chambers. Sensors provided on the leveling rods scan from above transversely and longitudinally spaced points on a surface of the coal charged through the holes into the respective chambers. A controller connected to the sensors records a respective measurement corresponding to a vertical position of the surface at each the points and determines from the measurements thereof a three-dimensional filling-level profile of the surface of the charged coal for controlling operation of the filling equipment and filling of the chambers with the coal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: UHDE GmbH
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Schuecker, Peter Thomas
  • Publication number: 20130270101
    Abstract: A strain-free stationary furnace door actuator for a coke furnace battery of the “non-recovery” or “heat-recovery” type, by way of which vertical opening of the coke furnace chamber doors is possible without the use of a coke furnace operating machine, wherein the deviations of the tension elements of the furnace door actuator from the intended arrangements, which result from strain of the transmitting devices, and undesired increases in tension force, which result from differences in the adhesion forces of the coke furnace chamber doors during closure, are avoided by the use of low-strain transmitting devices and tension elements. A method for the strain-free, stationary actuation of the door of a coke furnace battery of the “heat-recovery” type is also disclosed. The method uses rigid tension elements and low-strain transmitting devices for automatically opening and closing coke furnace chamber doors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP UHDE GMBH
    Inventor: Ralf Knoch
  • Patent number: 8460515
    Abstract: A biocoke producing apparatus has a reaction vessel that has a preset temperature range and pressure range for, without carbonizing of the pulverized biomass, inducing a pyrolytic or thermal curing reaction of lignin and hemicellulose thereof. The reaction vessel has a pressurization device for pressurizing to the pressure range, a heating device for heating to the temperature range in the state of the pressurization and a cooling device for cooling after maintaining of the above state. Multiple reaction vessels are provided. A pulverization delivery conveyor is provided superior to these reaction vessels, and each of the multiple reaction vessels is connected via a connection tube to the conveyor. The connection tube is provided with a pulverizate charging device for charging a given amount of pulverized biomass in accordance with a timing of pulverizate charging to the reaction vessels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignees: Naniwa Roki Co., Ltd., Kinki University
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Kawami, Jun Satou, Tamio Ida
  • Patent number: 8460516
    Abstract: A coke oven of a horizontal construction of the non-recovery or heat recovery type is shown. The oven has at least one coking chamber, in which laterally vertical downcomers as well as horizontal bottom flues extend underneath the coking chamber for indirect reheating of the coking chamber. At least a part of the interior walls of the coking chamber is configured as a secondary heating source by coating it with a high-emission coating (HEB) that shows an emission degree equal to or higher than 0.9, and consists of the substances Cr2O3 or Fe2O3 or a mixture containing these substances, with the portion of Fe2O3 amounting to at least 25% by weight in the mixture, and with the portion of Cr2O3 amounting to at least 20% by weight in the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Uhde GmbH
    Inventor: Ronald Kim
  • Patent number: 8454801
    Abstract: An apparatus and process for producing biocoke usable as a substitute fuel for coal coke from biomass as a raw material. The apparatus comprises pulverizing means for pulverizing a biomass raw material attributed to photosynthesis; heating means for heating to the temperature range in which the hemicellulose of the pulverized biomass raw material is pyrolyzed so as to exhibit bonding effects; pressurization means for, in the state of the heating, pressurizing to the pressure range in which the lignin of the pulverized biomass exhibits a thermal curing reaction and maintaining the pressure; and cooling means for cooling after maintaining the state of the pressurization. The apparatus further comprises temperature detecting means provided at the exit end of the region being heated by the heating means and regulation means for judging a reaction terminal point in accordance with the result of the temperature detection and regulating the timing for transfer from heating to cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignees: Naniwa Roki Co., Ltd., Kinki University
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Kawami, Jun Satou, Ayumu Yamazaki, Tamio Ida
  • Patent number: 8323454
    Abstract: Described is a method for the coking of coal, in particular coal with a high or alternating volatility, in coking plants comprising coking chambers, according to the non-recovery method or the heat-recovery method. Also described is device, which can be used to carry out said method simply, as the overheating of the coking furnace is prevented by the injection of water vapor. If a battery of coking furnaces is used, the disclosed method can be carried out irrespective of the number of said furnaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: UHDE GmbH
    Inventors: Ronald Kim, Franz-Josef Schuecker
  • Patent number: 8282786
    Abstract: Device for burning coking gas in a coking chamber of a coke oven of the “non-recovery type” or “heat-recovery type”, a multiplicity of inlet openings for primary air being arranged in the roof of each oven chamber in such a way that the coking gas produced during the coking is brought into uniform contact with the desired quantity of primary air for the partial combustion of the coking gas, these inlet openings for primary air being combined above the oven for each chamber separately by an air feed system, the air feed systems of the individual oven chambers being connected to an air feed system common to many oven chambers, and a respective control member for varying the primary air quantity over the carbonizing time being provided between the common air feed system and the air feeds of the individual oven chambers. A slight, constant positive pressure can be applied to the common air feed system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: UHDE GmbH
    Inventors: Ronald Kim, Franz-Josef Schuecker
  • Publication number: 20120103782
    Abstract: A heat-resistant door device for closing a horizontal coke oven chamber is made of a refractory material, using a material containing silica or a material containing silica and aluminum oxides, in particular. The material has a low temperature expansion coefficient and it is thermally well insulating so that the door is not deformed and/or distorted during the coal carbonization process. The door device is built of a coke oven wall mainly located above the door and embracing the door as well as of a mobile door located underneath. Thereby less cold ambient air enters into the coke oven chamber and radiation losses are minimized. The door may be comprised of an ellipsoidal bulge by, which the coke can be better pushed into the coking chamber. The oven wall embracing the oven door can also be made of a refractory material containing silica or of a material containing silica and aluminum oxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: UHDE GMBH
    Inventors: Ronald Kim, Werner Hippe, Ulrich Kochanski
  • Publication number: 20110315538
    Abstract: Dosed proportioning and cutoff of combustion air into the primary heating space of a horizontal coke oven is provided by apertures in the ceiling of the coke oven chamber, the apertures covered with a withdrawable cover device which controls the amount of air admitted, manually or in an automatic mode. By way of this device, ventilation of a coke oven chamber with primary air can be so controlled that primary air is introduced in an exactly dosed manner and, depending on its place of installation, exactly distributed into the primary heating space of a coke oven chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: UHDE GMBH
    Inventors: Ronald Kim, Alfred Mertens
  • Patent number: 8038800
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for cleaning the door of a coke oven, said door comprising a sealing edge and a membrane that is attached to the door panel of the coke oven. According to said method, cleaning tools comprising jet nozzles, which are supplied with a flow medium at high pressure, are situated and displaced back and forth in the region between the sealing edge and the door panel of the coke oven, in such a way that the interior surface of the membrane and the sealing edge are cleaned. The coke oven door is cleaned directly after the coke oven chamber is opened, by at least one jet nozzle element, which is supplied with compressed air and is displaced along the sealing edges. The jet nozzles are oriented in such a way that the air hits the surface to be cleaned at an acute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignees: DMT GmbH, RAG Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Rossa, Hans-Josef Giertz, Friedrich Huhn, Jürgen George, Ralf Hoven, Detlef Mattern, Friedrich-Wilhelm Cyris, Joachim Strunk, Heinz Opdenwinkel
  • Publication number: 20110048919
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wall protector for a heating oven head (2) between two oven chamber openings (1, 1?) of a coke oven battery, said wall protector being laterally bounded by vertical frame elements (5, 5?). The wall protector comprises an anchor stand (4) arranged in front of the heating wall head (2), extending vertically, and pressing devices (6) fixed to said anchor stand (4). Additionally, the wall protector has U-shaped yoke elements (7) onto which pressure is exerted by the pressing devices (6), and a rectangular head cover (10) covering the heating wall head (2). According to the invention, the U-shaped yoke elements (7) fit tightly against supporting surfaces of the frame elements (5, 5?) in a force-fitted manner and the head cover (10) consists of a thin-walled metal sheet constrained between the frame elements (5, 5?) and the heating wall head (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Ulrich Kochanski, Helmut Dohle, Manfred Friedrichs
  • Publication number: 20110023374
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a drive mechanism for vertical opening and closing of coke oven doors of horizontal coke oven chambers. The doors are lifted via a chain or a rope into the opened position. The rope or the chain is linked via deflector rollers to an actuating lever. The rope or chain can be pulled horizontally so that the doors are pulled-up vertically via the deflector rollers. The actuating lever is linked to a pull eye which upon actuation of the actuating lever can engage into the gripping cam of a gripping car. The gripping car is driven by a rope tackle and upon actuation of the actuating lever it pulls the door into the opened position. The door can be arrested via a suitable mechanism in its opened position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: UHDE GMBH
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Schuecker, Peter Thomas
  • Publication number: 20100025217
    Abstract: This invention relates to a ventilation device for non-recovery coke ovens, said ventilation device consisting of at least one vent port extending through the wall or built-in internals, e.g. a coke oven door, and connecting the oven interior with the outer atmosphere surrounding said oven and wherein said vent port can be closed entirely or partly by means of a locking element. Two locking elements or more are coupled to each other by at least one mechanical coupling element by fastening said coupling element to said locking elements directly or via a lever, and wherein each coupling element is connected to at least one central adjusting element such that said locking elements can be moved, with it being possible for the relevant vent ports to be closed, completely opened or moved into any intermediate position. Ideally this coupling element should be a chain or a screw spindle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Schuecker, Ronald Kim
  • Patent number: 7611609
    Abstract: A method for producing non-recovery/heat recovery coke may include the steps of providing a container, disposing a volume of loose coal into the container such that a vertical dimension of the volume of loose coal in the container is smaller than a horizontal dimension of the volume of loose coal, applying a force to the coal in the container to produce a volume of compacted coal having a substantially uniform density which is larger than that of the loose coal, disposing the compacted coal into a non-recovery/heat recovery type oven, and heating the compacted coal to produce coke. The method may also include the steps of providing a container, and moving the non-recovery/heat recovery coke mass from the oven at a substantially constant elevation to the container, quenching the coke mass in the container to produce a quenched coke mass, and removing the quenched coke mass from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: ArcelorMittal Investigacion y Desarrollo, S. L.
    Inventors: Hardarshan S Valia, William J Ambry
  • Publication number: 20090217576
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the coking of coal, in particular coal with a high or alternating volatility, in coking plants comprising coking chambers, according to the non-recovery method or the heat-recovery method. The invention also relates to a device, which can be used to carry out said method simply, as the overheating of the coking furnace is prevented by the injection of water vapour. If a battery of coking furnaces is used, the disclosed method can be carried out irrespective of the number of said furnaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Ronald Kim, Franz-Josef Schuecker
  • Patent number: 7547377
    Abstract: A coke-oven repairing apparatus comprising: a traveling carriage 3 which travels in the direction of coke oven battery with the carriage straddled on the rails placed on the top of a coke oven; a traversing carriage 4 provided on said traveling carriage 3, which moves in the direction orthogonal to the direction of coke oven battery; and a working device 5 for making repairs on the oven walls within the coke oven which is mounted on said traversing carriage 4, wherein the working device 5 includes: a guide post 31 which stands on the traversing carriage 4, and is also coupled, at its lower end portion, to a supporting portion provided on the traversing carriage through a pivot shaft 42; a lance 32 which ascends or descends along the guide post 31; and a derricking device 45 which tilts the guide post 31 between a forward-tilted posture and a backward-tilted posture using the pivot shaft 42 as the fulcrum to oscillate the lance 32 inserted in a coke-oven carbonizing chamber through a charging-hole, within
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Kansai Coke and Chemicals Co., Ltd., The
    Inventors: Hironobu Inamasu, Nobuki Takayama, Shunji Horinouchi, Hirofumi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20080271985
    Abstract: An air chamber unit provided for a coke oven door enabling to suppress the generation of poor quality coke and reduce tar adhesion to coke oven door by accelerating coking reaction in the vicinity of coke oven door plug. An air chamber unit (17) is installed to control air supply to the bottom-less combustion space provided in hollow metallic coke oven door plug. For the purpose of long lasting stable air supply for said combustion space, air space (20) in the air chamber unit (17) is divided into two sections (A) and (B) by labyrinth partition to give different function for each of those section. Air intake pipe (27) is fitted in section (A) through bottom plate (21) of air chamber unit (17), wherein check valve plate (35) and other related components are provided as air supply control segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2006
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: Yamasaki Industries Co,, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kesao Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 7341647
    Abstract: A coke oven door prevents the generation of poor-qualitycoke and yielding and adhesion of tar by promoting the temperature rise of coal particles charged near the coke oven door of a coke oven. The coke oven door comprises a heat-insulating box provided on the coke oven side of a oven door structure adapted to open and close an opening in the coke oven in which the coal particles are charged, horizontal support frames fitted in said heat-insulating box to vertically partition the heat-insulating box into multiple sections, and a bottom-less gas migration and isolation hollow plug formed by laterally and vertically putting together removable shield bars in spaces between said horizontal support frames with small ventilating spaces left on both sides thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Yamasaki Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kesao Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 7331298
    Abstract: An oven door latch system for a coke oven door positionable within an oven door opening and method of sealing a coke oven. The door latch system includes a rotary member rotatively attachable to the oven door. The rotary member has a wedge-shaped, arcuate engagement edge for variably engaging a striker plate on a buck stay member adjacent the oven door opening when the oven door is disposed in the opening of the oven. A tab member is also included on the rotary member. A remotely operated adjustment actuator is provided for engaging the tab member to rotate the rotary member in conjunction with an oven door opening or closing operation. Enhanced oven door sealing is provided by the rotary wedge latch system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: SunCoke Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael P. Barkdoll, Mark A. Ball, Richard E. Taylor, Terry D. Taylor, Dexter J. Mounts, Ronnie E. Stacy, John W. Crigger, Darrell E. Horn, William H. Stacy
  • Publication number: 20070289861
    Abstract: Relatively high speed methods for increasing the bulk density of coal particles, apparatus for increasing the bulk density of coal particles and methods for making metallurgical coke. Once such method includes depositing coal particles onto a charging plate external to a coking oven to provide an elongate bed of dry, uncompacted coal having an upper surface of the charging plate. The charging plate has side walls, and at least one movable end wall An impact pressure is applied to the upper surface of the bed of dry, uncompacted coal while degassing the coal to provide a dry, compacted coal bed having a bulk density ranging from about 960 to about 1200 kilograms per cubic meter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Michael P. Barkdoll, Mark A. Ball, Daniel Korrect, Richard C. Retort, Donald M. Watkins
  • Patent number: 7169266
    Abstract: A coke drum head is hinged to a coke drum body using a compound joint such as a trammel pivot, and the head is moved between open and closed positions using an actuator. In moving between open and closed positions, the head traces out a non-circular path which reduces the required headroom relative to a head using a standard pivot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Fluor Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Leslie P. Antalffy, Glenda T. Ruiz, legal representative, Gerald Bryant, Michael B. Knowles, David W. Malek, Samuel A. Martin, Robert Benoit, deceased
  • Patent number: 7166197
    Abstract: A coke-oven door has an annular periphery normally juxtaposed with an annular door frame. A seal assembly for the door has at least two flexible, relatively displaceable, metallic, and annular membranes each having an annular inner periphery and an annular outer periphery and a U-section channel fixed to the outer periphery of only one of the membranes, open toward the door, and having annular inner and outer edges. The other membrane bears on the one membrane and therethrough on the channel. A mount secures the inner peripheries of the membranes to the periphery of the door. A spring urges the edges of the channel with a spring force against the door frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Deutsche Montan Technologie GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Josef Giertz, Klaus Dieter Ruthemann, Jürgen George, Franz Liesewitz, Horst Schröder, Friedrich Wilhelm Cyris
  • Patent number: 7067043
    Abstract: A coke oven has a coke-oven chamber adapted to hold a mass of coke, defining above the mass of coke a gas-collecting chamber, and having a door opening. A door closes the door opening. A peripheral gas channel extends around the opening between the door and coke-oven chamber and has at least one outer and at least one inner door seal defining an annular space. The inner door seal is formed in both the coke-oven chamber and the gas-collecting chamber with a plurality of throughgoing holes forming fluid-communicating connections between the coke-oven chamber, the gas-collecting chamber, and the annular space at different heights of the coke-oven chamber and of the gas-collecting chamber. Thus regions of the coke-oven chamber with different gas pressures communicate with each other and with the annular space via the connections on the inner door seal to equalize pressure between the regions and the gas-collecting chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Deutsche Montan Technologie GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Josef Giertz, Franz Liesewitz, Friedrich-Wilhelm Cyris, Frank Rossa
  • Patent number: 7033460
    Abstract: A coke drum bottom de-heading system having an internal shroud enclosure and a shroud end cap opened by a flange to a coke bottom de-heading valve capable of accepting the end of a gate valve upon actuation. Acting in coordination with the shroud enclosure to prevent the escape of steam is a gate seal assembly having a gate seal slidably engaged against the sliding gate to prevent the passage of steam thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Corportaion
    Inventors: Ruben F. Lah, Gary Larsen
  • Patent number: 6916406
    Abstract: A coke oven door comprises a generally rectangular outer frame, a generally rectangular inner frame positioned within the outer frame and a seal operably mounted to the inner frame and adapted for effecting sealing against a jamb of a coke oven. The outer frame is adapted for moving the seal toward the jamb and the outer and inner frames are pivotally connected so as to be able to pivot relative to one another about a longitudinal pivot axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Saturn Machine & Welding Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Billy Carr Baird
  • Patent number: 6843889
    Abstract: A coke drum bottom de-heading system having an internal shroud enclosure and a shroud end cap opened by a flange to a coke bottom de-heading valve capable of accepting the end of a gate valve upon actuation. Acting in coordination with the shroud enclosure to prevent the escape of steam is a gate seal assembly having a gate seal slidably engaged against the sliding gate to prevent the passage of steam thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Corporation
    Inventors: Ruben F. Lah, Gary Larsen
  • Publication number: 20040200715
    Abstract: The present invention features a flange to flange dynamic seal and sealing system, particularly suited for use within high temperature, high pressure environments, such as a delayed coking process. The dynamic flange seal and sealing system comprises two primary elements or seals, each of which are capable of independently forming a flange seal between two flanged components or combining to create a flange seal. Specifically, these primary seals are an iconel bellows seal and a bi-material gasket, each of which surround a flange opening along a sealing surface. The flange seal created by the dynamic flange seal and sealing system is capable of being maintained in light of, or rather the sealing system adapts to, any structural or environmental changes within the connected flanges. As such, the flange seal may be a dynamic flange seal or a static flange seal or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventor: Ruben F. Lah
  • Patent number: 6797122
    Abstract: A coke oven and a method of operating the same, capable not only of achieving a uniform combustion temperature heightwise within a combustion chamber when a rich gas or a lean gas is burnt, but also of reducing NOx content in the waste gas, while eliminating localized high-temperature combustion. The combustion chamber of the coke oven comprises a rich-gas port 2 located near an oven wall 6 bordering a carbonization chamber in the bottom 5 of combustion chamber, and the midpoint P3, connecting the center P2 of a lean-gas port 7 and the center P of an air port 3, is on the side opposite to the rich-gas port 2 relative to the center line CL of the combustion chamber. (See FIG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: The Japan Iron and Steel Federation
    Inventors: Shuhei Yoshida, Syoji Takase, Takafumi Saji, Makoto Uchida, Hiroyuki Koyama
  • Publication number: 20020157936
    Abstract: A coke drum bottom head removal system and method for deheading the bottom head cover of a coke drum comprises a carriage that is positionable beneath the bottom head cover, and a cart mounted to the carriage. Several clamps vertically mounted to the cart are positionable in a closed position, in which the clamps apply a compressive force that maintains substantially fluid tight engagement between the bottom head cover and bottom head flange, and an opened position, in which the clamps allow a limited spacing between the bottom head cover and the bottom head flange. A plurality of supports mounted to the cart support the bottom head cover once the fasteners coupling the bottom head cover to the bottom head flange are removed and the clamps are in the opened position. The system can be remotely operated to enhance operator safety when the bottom head cover is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Sergio Gustavo Schonfeld, Kenneth Allan Larson, Rodney Karl Hogan
  • Patent number: 6290494
    Abstract: The invention provides a coke oven charging machine including a mobile frame and a coke oven feed device on the mobile frame. The coke oven feed device includes a movable, elongate charging plate having a first end and a second end, retractable side-walls adjacent the charging plate, first and second end walls adjacent the first and second ends of the charging plate and a shuttle section adjacent the first end of the charging plate for spanning an area between the first end of the charging plate and an entrance to the oven. The shuttle section has opposed shuttle side walls and a shuttle end wall. A charging plate moving device is provided for moving the charging plate into and out of the oven. The charging machine apparatus provides a means for quickly charging coking ovens with a compacted coal charge so that lower quality coals may be used to make metallurgical coke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Sun Coke Company
    Inventor: Michael P. Barkdoll
  • Patent number: 6066237
    Abstract: In a coke drum an outlet arrangement is provided which allows removal of the coke from the drum without endangering the health or safety of workers heading or unheading the coke drum. Instead of using a manually removable bottom flange for the drum, a semiautomatic bottom flange removal system is provided. A spool is attached to the conventional, pre-existing, about 6 feet in diameter drum stationary bottom flange. The spool includes a tapered clamping surface. A new style removable bottom flange also includes a tapered clamping surface. The tapered clamping surfaces cooperate with clamp ring sectors movable by externally mounted hydraulic cylinders into contact with the spool and the flange, and other hydraulic cylinders mounted directly on the ring sectors move male locking surfaces into locking engagement with cooperating female locking surfaces formed on adjacent clamp ring sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Inventor: Peter Kindersley
  • Patent number: 6059932
    Abstract: A coal compaction system and method for a non-recovery coke oven having refractory roof, floor, side walls and end doors for coal charging and coke discharge provides an improved coal charging machine carrying a coal conveyor supported intermediate the ends of the conveyor to avoid conveyor sagging and non-uniform depth of a deposited coal bed, a number of pressurized fluid-driven vibratory compactors mounted on an end of the charging machine and spaced-apart across the width of the coal bed and serving to compact the coal bed on a retraction stroke of the charging machine, a pivoted lifting frame mounted on the charging machine above the compactors and from which the compactors individually are suspended and are provided with individual supply of pressurized fluid, and a coke pusher head mounted on the charging machine behind the compactors and serving, when the lifting frame and associated compactors are raised, to push finished coke from the coke oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Pennsylvania Coke Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Raymond M. Sturgulewski
  • Patent number: 5941445
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for refurbishing eroded portions in coke oven doorjambs including refurbishing apparatus having a framework attached to the coke oven structure adjacent the doorjamb. The framework supports a carriage that is simultaneously moveable in an "X" axis direction and a "Y" axis direction within the boundary so that a machine-cutting tool, attached to the carriage, can be moved from one position directly to another position within the framework boundary. The machine-cutting tool is positioned to make cutting passes alone new metal that is fused into the eroded portions of the coke oven doorjamb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Bethlehem Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Alvin M. Nestler
  • Patent number: 5928476
    Abstract: A coke oven door for closing the open end of an elongated coking chamber of a nonrecovery coke oven, including process air vents extending through the door at a level above a coal charge to be coked, has a structural frame on its outer surface including an elongated manifold extending across the door adjacent its bottom with a plurality of inlet openings in the manifold, and a tubular duct system connecting the manifold to the process air inlets whereby reduced pressure in the oven will draw air through the process air inlets and the duct system to thereby draw emissions from the area at the base of the door into the oven for incineration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Sun Coal Company
    Inventor: Jerry C. Daniels
  • Patent number: 5837104
    Abstract: A pusher side coke oven door assembly comprises a door, a cold face refractory wall attached to the door, and a hot face refractory wall attached to and spaced from the cold face refractory wall to form therewith a hollow vent space for gases evolved from roasting coal, wherein a top section of the hot face refractory wall is L-shaped and has a horizontally-disposed leg extending across the hollow vent space, and a pair of extender plates mounted on the leg and extending vertically thereabove to prevent coal spillage and entry into the hollow vent space during coal levelling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Inventor: Paul V. Suey
  • Patent number: 5833811
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying a high temperature refractory material to the wall surface of a coking chamber in a coke battery is equipped with: a moving carriage which is provided on the side of a coke pushing machine of the coking chamber and which is free to move back and forth outside the coke battery in the direction of the length of the coking chamber; a horizontal lance which has a trailing end attached to the moving carriage and which is free to move back and forth horizontally from one end to the other end in the direction of the length at the bottom of the coking chamber; a vertical lance which is provided in the direction of the height of the coking chamber at the leading end of the horizontal lance; and spray nozzles for applying a high temperature refractory material which are arranged in tiers in such a manner that they are directed to the wall surface of the coking chamber in the direction of the height of the vertical lance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Ando, Yasuyuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5735917
    Abstract: A gas passage is formed on the inner surface of an oven door of a coke oven. Combustible gas which is generated during carbonization of coal in the coke oven is introduced into the passage, an oxygen-containing gas is introduced into the gas passage from a nozzle installed on the sole plate of the door region, ingress of charged coal into the gas passage is prevented, the combustible gas is combusted in the gas passage, a decrease in temperature in the door region common in the prior art is made up for, and the carbonization of coal is thereby promoted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: The Japan Iron and Steel Federation
    Inventors: Keizo Inoue, Hideyuki Kunimasa
  • Patent number: 5720855
    Abstract: A coke oven door comprises a door frame, a plate mounted so as to be freely movable relative to the door frame within limits and a seal operatively mounted to the plate and positioned around the periphery of the frame for effecting sealing against the jamb of a coke oven. In a preferred form, the door comprises a first plate mounted so as to be freely movable relative to the door frame within limits and a second plate mounted to the first plate, having a seal mounted around the periphery thereof and having refractory plugs mounted thereto. Force applying members are mounted around the periphery of the door frame and are selectively adjustable to contact and move the first plate. Force applying members are mounted around the periphery of the first plate and are selectively adjustable to contact and move the seal. Angle sections mounted to the door frame and retainer clips mounted to the first plate cooperate to limit movement of the first plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: Saturn Machine & Welding Co. Inc.
    Inventor: Billy Carr Baird
  • Patent number: 5705037
    Abstract: In order to reduce the concentration of CO in the waste gas of coke oven batteries that are heated by lean gas, additional sealing is used for the brick-work of die regenerator separating walls of the coke oven battery, as well as a coke oven battery with a regenerator having brick-built separating walls, between ducts that carry lean gas and waste gas, in which one has arranged stainless steel sheets in front of the regenerator separating wall with, preferably, an intermediate layer that is located behind it that comprises ceramic fibers. In this regard, the stainless steel sheets, that overlap with one another in each case, are preferably held by rod-shaped tensioning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Krup Koppers GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Reinke, Werner Hippe, Gunter Meyer, Hans Oldengott
  • Patent number: 5688376
    Abstract: Method for the gas sealing manufacture of a door frame of a coke oven battery which battery comprises a refractory structure with an armor plate connected to it onto which the door frame is fitted characterized by the following steps:measuring the profile of the surface of the armor plate at the position where it faces the door frame in its mounted state;fitting a profile to one side of the door frame which in its mounted state faces the armor plate, corresponding to the profile of the surface of that armor plate measured in the previous step, in such a way that in its mounted state the door frame rests essentially against the armor plate;placing the door frame thus adapted against the armor plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: Hoogovens Staal BV
    Inventors: Jacobus Hermanus Maria Van Egmond, Hans Willem Smits
  • Patent number: 5683552
    Abstract: A coke oven door assembly has first abutting vertically aligned refractory cold face layers, second abutting vertically aligned refractory hot face layers spaced therefrom, and an integral one piece uppermost refractory section having a bottom, a horizontally extending top portion, and first and second downwardly depending leg portions with an interconnecting web. The interconnecting web is spaced from the side walls of the uppermost refractory section between the leg portions and extends from the horizontally extending portion at least partially downwardly towards the bottom of the uppermost refractory section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Inventor: Paul V. Suey
  • Patent number: 5670025
    Abstract: A coke oven door for placement against a door jamb of a coke oven comprises a segmented door body and plurality of toggle mechanisms coupled to the door at the juncture of each segment. The toggle mechanisms include inner and outer toggle links pivotally connected by an intermediate pivot shaft and the links are pivotable between an extended length and a shortened length. Inner ends of the toggle mechanism are coupled to the segmented door body and outer ends of the toggle mechanisms are coupled to a flexible latch tension bar. The latch tension bar engages latch hooks connected to the door jamb and vertical movement of a latch actuator rod coupled to the intermediate pivot shaft moves the toggle mechanisms to an extended position to flex the latch tension bars and force the door body against the door jamb to seal the coke oven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: Saturn Machine & Welding Co., Inc.
    Inventor: William Baird
  • Patent number: 5658434
    Abstract: A coke-oven door assembly has a rigid door, a mounting block adjacent the door, a door-plug backing plate fixed to the mounting block, and a membrane having a center portion between the backing and mounting blocks and a periphery juxtaposed with a coke-oven door jamb. A blade-type seal is carried on the periphery and engageable with the door jamb and spring units on the door press the seal against the door jamb. A plurality of bolts threaded into the mounting block extend generally perpendicularly outward from the membrane and are each formed with an abutment shoulder directed outward away from the membrane. A plurality of sleeves threaded into the door slidably receive the bolts and are each formed with an abutment shoulder directed inward toward and engageable with the respective bolt abutment so that the mounting block can move perpendicular to the membrane relative to the door with separation of each bolt abutment from the respective sleeve abutment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Krupp Koppers GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Schlosser