Carbon baking furnace

A vertical path carbon baking furnace for baking green carbon articles;

• the furnace comprising:
• a refractory material furnace body defining a substantially vertical baking path adapted to receive the green carbon articles;
• the vertical baking path having a volatile extraction zone disposed above a baking zone;
• the refractory material furnace body defining a volatile extraction inlet in communication with the substantially vertical baking path;
• the volatile extraction inlet being disposed in the volatile extraction zone of the baking path;
• a liner carried within the refractory material furnace body;
• the liner being hollow to define a liner channel in fluid communication with the volatile extraction inlet;
• the refractory material furnace body defining serpentine baking fume channels disposed on opposite sides of the baking path to receive baking fumes;
• each of the serpentine baking fume channels being spaced outwardly from the substantially vertical baking path by portions of the refractory material furnace body;
• portions of the serpentine baking fume channels being disposed within the volatile extraction zone;
• each of the serpentine baking paths having substantially parallel runs within the volatile extraction zone;
• the refractory material furnace body defining at least one volatile extraction channel sandwiched between portions of the substantially parallel runs of each baking fume channel;
• the liner being carried by the refractory material furnace body within the at least one volatile extraction channel;
• a burner that provides baking fumes to the baking fume channels;
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• the volatile extraction inlet in fluid communication with the burner through the liner channel such that volatile fumes extracted from the baking path through the volatile extraction inlet and the liner channel can be selectively delivered to the burner for combustion.