Burn profiles for coke operations

A system for controlling a horizontal heat recovery coke oven burn profile, the system comprising:

• a horizontal heat recovery coke oven having (i) an oven chamber being at least partially defined by an oven floor, opposing oven doors, opposing sidewalls that extend upwardly from the oven floor between the opposing oven doors, and an oven crown positioned above the oven floor, (ii) at least one air inlet, and (iii) at least one sole flue, beneath the oven floor, in fluid communication with the oven chamber;
• a temperature sensor disposed within the oven chamber;
• at least one air inlet, positioned to place the oven chamber in fluid communication with an environment exterior to the horizontal heat recovery coke oven;
• at least one uptake channel having an uptake damper in fluid communication with the at least one sole flue;
• the uptake damper being selectively movable between open and closed positions;
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• a controller operatively coupled with the uptake damper and temperature sensor, the controller being adapted to (i) receive a plurality of successively increasing temperature changes detected by the temperature sensor over a carbonization cycle inside the oven chamber, and (ii) move the uptake damper through a plurality of increasingly flow restrictive positions, until the temperature changes in the oven chamber reach a peak temperature, to gradually reduce a negative pressure draft over the increasingly flow restrictive positions of the uptake damper, whereby a rate at which the oven chamber attains the peak temperature during the carbonization cycle is reduced.