Coke oven with apparatus for partially drying and preheating coal

Patent · Tue Sep 08 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5867394

Marsden, B W

A coking oven is disclosed having a coking chamber and a combustion chamber with a high temperature flue gas outlet. It is first connected to a heat exchanger for heating cool air to cool the flue gases to an intermediate temperature, a coal dryer using the intermediate temperature flue gases for drying wet coal to a water content of a few percent by weight and preheating the coal to a temperature below the boiling point of water, a coal oiler to oil the partially dried and preheated coal, and a gas cleaner system for removing particulate matter from the low temperature flue gas coming from the coal dryer; also disclosed is an improved method of coking coal and apparatus for preheating and partially drying coal that can be added to existing coke oven structures.

• Assignee: Interlake, Inc.
• Patent Number(s): US 4288295
• OSTI ID: 5867394
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010401* -- Coal & Coal Products-- Carbonization-- (-1987)
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CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CARBONIZATION
CHAMBER FURNACES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CLEANING
COAL
COKE OVENS
COKING
COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
DECOMPOSITION
DESIGN
DRYERS
ENERGY SOURCES
FLUE GAS
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
FURNACES
GASEOUS WASTES
GASES
HEAT EXCHANGERS
HEAT TREATMENTS
HIGH TEMPERATURE
MATERIALS
WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION
WASTES