Bunker construction for charging hot, dry coal and cold, wet coal to coke oven charging hoppers

Patent · Tue Apr 08 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5867346

Bocsanczy, J; Knappstein, J

Bunker for supplying alternatively either hot, dry coal or cold, wet coal to a charging hopper or test bunkers of a plurality of coke ovens in a coke oven battery, comprises, a bunker housing having an inlet adjacent its top for charging coal and a lower portion with a plurality of downwardly opening coke oven discharge spouts corresponding to the number of charging hoppers and test bunkers. An inert gas feed line includes a portion branching off to the vicinity of each spout and provided with a plurality of feeder lines at the lower end of the spout and which also includes a plurality of spray nozzles in the line for directing a water spray in the direction of the inert gas flow.

• Assignee: Still, Carl Firma (Germany, Federal Republic Of)
• Patent Number(s): US 4197165
• OSTI ID: 5867346
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
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COKE
COKE OVENS
CONTAINERS
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HOPPERS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INERT ATMOSPHERE
MATERIALS
MOISTURE
NOZZLES
OPERATION
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
SPRAYS
TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION
WATER