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US 3,953,299 AGranted
Coke oven having a low burner heating wall and a high burner heating wall
AssigneeBethlehem Steel Corporation
InventorsJohn J. Strepelis, Wayne C. Gensler
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Abstract
A coke oven and method of heating a coke oven are provided in which the coke oven has coking chambers with a low burner heating wall on one side of the coking chamber and a high burner heating wall on the other side of the coking chamber. Heating takes place by only low burners in one heating wall and only high burners in the other heating wall.
Claims5
In combination, a coke oven battery having a plurality of horizontal coking chambers and between each said coking chamber a heating wall containing a plurality of vertical heating flues;
- said heating walls and heating flues comprising
- a. a low burner heating wall having plural hairpin flues therein on one side of each of said coking chambers each said flue having a burner means, said burner means consisting of a low burner in which the height of said low burner relative to the height of the flue is in the ratio of about 1:22 to 1:8;
- and
- b. a high burner heating wall having plural hairpin flues therein on the other side of each of said coking chambers each said flue having a burner means, said burner means consisting of a high burner in which the height of said high burner relative to the height of the flue is in the ratio of about 1:5 to 1:3;
- and
- c. means for operably connecting said low and high burners for heating to a fuel and air source;
- whereby improved vertical temperature distribution in the material within each said coking chamber is obtained.
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