High strength coke oven wall having gas flues therein
In a nonrecovery coke oven battery including a plurality of coke ovens constructed in side-by-side relation with adjacent ovens in the battery being separated by a common sidewall having a face exposed in each said adjacent oven, and a plurality of generally rectangular flues formed in and extending generally vertically upward through each said common sidewall in spaced relation to one another, said flues having internal end surfaces generally parallel to said sidewall faces and side surfaces generally perpendicular to said sidewall faces, said sidewall being constructed of refractory brick separated by mortar joints and arranged in alternate odd and even courses with each course of brick including a plurality of groups of brick each cooperating to form a core having a rectangular opening extending there through defining a portion of one of said flues, the improvement is described wherein the refractory brick defining said cores in said even numbered courses comprise bricks of at least two shapes and the bricks defining the cores in the odd number of courses comprises bricks of at least two shapes, and wherein the shapes of the brick forming the core in said odd and in said even courses are different from one another, the refractory brick in each said core being shaped and arranged such that no mortar joint between two adjacent bricks defining any core is contained in a single vertical plane from a flue to the adjacent oven.
- Assignee:
- Sun Coal Co., Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 5228955; A
- Application Number:
- PPN: US 7-886804
- OSTI ID:
- 6431262
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 22 May 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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