US 4,435,152 AGranted

Apparatus for improving the flow of gases to a combustion chamber of a coke oven or the like

AssigneeDr. C. Otto & Comp. G.m.b.H.

InventorsCarl-Heinz Struck, Ralf Schumacher

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Abstract

A heating flue for a coke oven includes a flow plate to replace the base in the heating flue. The thickness of the flow plate is greater than the thickness of the flue base and disposed above a chamber which is divided into two halves in a gas-tight manner by a central web of refractory material. Each chamber communicates with ducts that feed preheated air from regenerators during rich-gas firing and feed preheated air and lean gas during firing with lean gas. The height of the chamber to the thickness of the flow plate is a ratio within 0.3 to 0.7, preferably 0.5. The flow plate has a plurality of bores each with a cross-sectional area which, when compared with the cross-sectional area of the plate, forms a ratio of between 20 and 200, preferably 30 to 60. The diameter of a cylindrical bore is between 10 and 60 millimeters, preferably 20 and 50 millimeters.

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Dependent claims

Apparatus for conducting a flow of combustion gases from ducts into a heating flue of an industrial gas-fired system, such as a coke oven, which system includes recuperative waste-gas heat recovery means for preheating said combustion gases which comprise air when heating by combustion of rich gas and comprise air and lean gas when heating by combustion of lean gas;

said heating flue having a lower end, a bottom wall, and an upper end;
at least a position of said combustion gases being introduced through said ducts from the outlet of said waste-gas heat recovery means into said lower end of said heating flue;
said apparatus including the combination therewith of a flow plate mounted in said lower end of said heating flue and spaced from said bottom wall to form a chamber therebelow, and a central refractory web to divide said chamber into two halves in a gas-tight manner;
each of the chamber halves communicating with one of said ducts;
the height of said chamber to the thickness of said flow plate being in a ratio of within 0.3 to 0.7.

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