Coke oven heating wall
AssigneeKoppers Company, Inc.
InventorDonald J. Gerber
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Abstract
A heating wall on a horizontal coke oven battery. The liner wall section which separates the flues from the oven chambers is characterized by two or more laterally extending rows of vertical ridges. The ridges in adjacent rows are misaligned so as to establish surface turbulence in rising flue gases. As a result of this turbulence and the increased surface area afforded by this configuration, the rate of heat flow through the liner walls is increased so as to increase the rate of carbonization in the oven chambers.
Claims10
In a heating wall interposed between two adjacent coking oven chambers in a horizontal coke oven battery comprising a pair of spaced longitudinal liner walls each of said walls having a flue adjacent surface and an oven adjacent surface and intermediate transverse tie walls tying said liner walls and defining therewith individual vertical combustion flues inside the heating wall, wherein the improvement comprises:
- (a) a first row of vertically disposed ridges depending from the flue adjacent surface of at least one liner wall, and being arranged such that said ridges are laterally aligned and spaced from one another to define recessed spaces therebetween;
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- (b) a second row of vertically disposed ridges depending from said flue adjacent surface of said liner wall and said ridges being laterally aligned above said first row and spaced from one another to define recessed spaces therebetween, and wherein the ridges of said second row are vertically aligned with the recessed spaces of the first row such that surface turbulence is established in rising gases in the flue.
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