Leveling apparatus for and method of filling an oven chamber of a coke-oven battery

US8568568B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• UHDE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Franz-Josef Schuecker · Castrop-Rauxel, DE
• Peter C. Thomas · Erkelenz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 6, 2008
• Grant date: Oct 29, 2013
• Expiry date: Aug 18, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C10B41/005
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A coking oven has a battery of longitudinally extending and transversely spaced coking chambers each provided with a plurality of downwardly open and longitudinally spaced filling holes. Coal is charged into the chambers through the respective filling holes. A respective longitudinally movable leveling rod in each of the chambers can level coal charged by the filling equipment into the chambers. Sensors provided on the leveling rods scan from above transversely and longitudinally spaced points on a surface of the coal charged through the holes into the respective chambers. A controller connected to the sensors records a respective measurement corresponding to a vertical position of the surface at each the points and determines from the measurements thereof a three-dimensional filling-level profile of the surface of the charged coal for controlling operation of the filling equipment and filling of the chambers with the coal.