Wirtualna Ruda

start

historia

zabytki

szlaki

wirtualne spacery

 kontakt

The technology path

The new coke plant was equipped with a single Otto system 35-chamber battery. Each chamber was 10.25 metres long, 1.8 metre high, and 0.54-0.56 metre wide. The battery with ramps was 32.5 metres wide, 42 meteres long, and 5.5 metre high. It did not possess regenerators and the walls of chambers were made using chamotte moulders.

The coking process lasted for 37.5 hours. Each chamber procuded a maximum of 5.8 tonnes of coke, which in total gave over 200 tonnes of coke.

The Otto-Hoffmann type of batteries possessed horizontal chambers, joint heating walls, and vertical heating ducts with half-wall heating. Fuel gas was supplied from bottom. After the gas was mixed with air, it ignited and the hot fumes were distributed to the specific heating ducts of a given part of the battery. The distribution of air and gas to specific heating ducts in this type of furnace was difficult to regulate. Therefore, it was hard to acquire equal heating of coal at the whole height of a chamber. Quite often the coke created in the bottom part was better heated.

35-chamber coke oven battery of the "Otto-Hoffman" system, technical drawing from 1903

previous

next