Monitoring and modulation system for a coke oven battery
AssigneeVanocur Refractories LLC
InventorCharles Vincent Lauricella
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Abstract
A coke oven battery modulation system, including a coke oven battery, a combustion air supply fluidly connected to the coke oven battery via a first conduit, a fuel supply fluidly connected to the coke oven battery via a second conduit, a stack fluidly connected to the coke oven battery via a third conduit, the stack forming a fluid flow including a flow rate, a damper arranged in the third conduit, a first actuator operatively arranged to adjust the damper, at least one sensor, and a controller operatively arranged to receive data from the at least one sensor and communicate with the first actuator to adjust the damper.
Claims20
A coke oven battery modulation system, comprising:
- a coke oven battery;
- a combustion air supply fluidly connected to the coke oven battery via a first conduit;
- a fuel supply fluidly connected to the coke oven battery via a second conduit;
- a stack fluidly connected to the coke oven battery via a third conduit, the stack forming a fluid flow including a flow rate;
- a damper arranged in the third conduit;
- a first actuator operatively arranged to adjust the damper;
- at least one sensor;
- and
- a controller operatively arranged to receive data from the at least one sensor and communicate with the first actuator to adjust the damper.
A method for monitoring a coke oven battery system including a coke oven battery, a stack, a fuel supply, and a combustion air supply, comprising:
- receiving an input from one or more sensors;
- determining that an opacity of the stack is less than a first predetermined threshold;
- and
- decreasing a flow rate of fluid through the stack and/or increasing the fuel supply to the coke oven battery.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.