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“Development Of Ecologically Clean System Of Coke Oven Construction

Author Artem Golubev


INTRODUCTION

The coke production is an important section of  metallurgical production cycle, as it is a supplier of  restorer ferric - a technological fuel for blast furnaces. In connection with expected growth of ferrous metals consumption  in the nearest decades the most important problem of coke-chemists is expansion of  raw materials coking base and decision of  sharp ecological production problems .

One of the expansion directions of coal variety for coking and reduction of its cost is a density increase  of the coal loading in coke camera by  ramming way.

The main advantage of  coke ovens with coal mixture ramming is a possibility to receive the qualitative blast furnace coke from coal mixture, which contains up to 70%  gas and longflame coals, deposits of  which in Ukraine are several times more, than that of well coking, but expenditures on their mining are far less.

Besides that coke ovens with coal mixture ramming have a number of serious disadvantages, they are the following:

- emission of gas and dust in great amount on a servicing platform and a load machine while pushing  coal cake when worsens the labour conditions  of servicing personnel;

- when the toughness of  a coal cake is not sufficient its destruction occurs during loading, which leads to greater expenditures of  time and labour on coal removing  from a camera;

-loading of the coke cake into the coking coach and its transportation to a quenching plant is accompanied by carbon-monoxide fumes of coke  and emission of a big amount of harmful gases and dust into the atmosphere.

The closest to a designed prototype of a coke oven is continuously acting horizontal coke oven, including coking camera, camera with crater (the bunker) for coal mixture loading and device for pushing  coal into a coking camera , as well as camera for coke cooling and bunker for coolled coke.

 Advantages of such an installation for  coal mixture coking are the following:

-a possibility to liquidate completely emissions of harmful gases and dust into the atmosphere when loading the coal mixture and unloading of coke;

-prevention the contact of overheated coke with atmospheric air and its carbon-monoxide fumes;

- a reduction in the number of servicing machines and personnel, improvement of  labour conditions.

The main disadvantage of such an installation is a big pushing effort   of coal from camera into coking camera because of the plastic mass formed on surfaces of the coal cake and increase of adhesive power with wall.

The other disadvantage of the described installation is a loss of  physical heat of coke, since design of the cast-iron panels, forming the walls of the camera-cooler, does not allow to get the vapour of  necessary parameters  for use in technological process or in a steam turbine.

The purpose of the given work is a loading device simplification , reduction of   pushing  effort of coal cake and probability of its destruction, preventing exception the surge of gas and dust into the atmosphere while loading coal and unloading, utilization of the coke heat  for steam production.

 

MAIN PART

A plant for coal mixture ramming works in the following way. Coal mixture supplied by a conveyor system  into a bunker-accumulator on a load machine, whose capacity is calculated to load 3-4 coke cameras.

From the bunker coal is distributed by feeders evenly along the length of a camera and is packed down by mechanical rammers. When the given height of a coal cake is reached the coal supply into a camera and ramming are stopped, then frontal and lateral walls of camera are  opened  and coal cake is pushed into a tray in a coking camera  through opened door from machine side. After the cake has been fixed tray is extracted from the camera and the door is fixed on it, and on ramming-load machine the cycle of operations of a new coal cake formation is repeated  .

The container for  coal ramming has a cross-section, corresponding to section of the coking camera  and a neck, slightly expanding into the side of cake pushing (on 10-20 mms), but its useful length is 1/2 - 1/3 lengths of the coking camera. Such correlation defines the time lag between  next pushing, equal 1/2 -1/3 of coking period, which is sufficient to form on surfaces of a earlier loaded pie a layer of coke-selfcoke  thickness 100-150 mms, effort of the pushing falls due to that.

 Cameras for coke cooling  are designed in the manner of twodrummed steam boilers, boiling pipes   of which  form the lateral walls of the cameras-refrigerator and lined from the side of coke cake by  cast-iron plates.

 

CONCLUSIONS

Offered system of coke ovens has the following advantages:

- simplicity and reliability of a device for loading rammed coal mixture;

- reduction of pushing efforts of coal-coke cake into a coking camera due to the fact that during the period between pushings, which is 1/2-1/3 coking periods,  thick layer of coke-selfcoke is formed  (~120 mms), on surfaces of the coal cake the power of friction of layer with wall of the camera is far less, than of a plastic layer;

-  absence of gas and dust releases into the atmosphere, due to full encapsulating the coking camera  in coking process, loading the coal cake and pushing of coke;

- utilization of the coke heat for steam production;

- reduction of number of machines, equipment and personnel servicing coke ovens, as there is no need to use machine from coke side, coach, quenching tower and coke footlights.

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