Coke Oven Techniques

Opening Session.- - Opening address.- - Introductory address Coke supply and demand in the European Community.- - General introduction Coke and Coal in the changing technology of the blast furnace.- First Technical Session: Basic Research.- - Chairman: G. Dellanoy, Director, Centre D'Etudes et Recherches des Charbonnages de France.- - Studies of the factors controlling the formation and development of the porous structure of coke.- - Coal carbonization: formation, properties and relevance of microstructures in resultant cokes.- - Influence of the plastic properties of steam coal by means of bituminous additives.- - High temperature stability of coke in relation to its bulk permeability.- - Characterization of coal and coke.- - Round table "A" Coke and the blast furnace.- - Round table "B" Pollution problems.- - Introductory paper: Emission of tar fog from coke oven doors.- Second Technical Session: Coal Charge Preparation and Unconventional Coking Techniques.- - Further development of the Precarbon process.- - The manufacture of blast furnace coke in horizontal ovens from blends without normal quality characteristics by the combination of the preheating and stamp charging techniques.- - The use of pre-compacted coal for the manufacture of blast furnace coke.- - Formed coke from high volatile coal via char the CdF process.- Third Technical Session: Coking Techniques and Summary of Round Table Discussions.- - Chairman: K. G. Beck, Mitglied der Geschaftsfuhrung der Bergbau-Forschung, GmbH.- - Thermal measurements on coke ovens.- - Control of coke oven heating.- - Testing of the Codeco system for the programmed heating of coke ovens.- Third Technical Session (continued).- - Chairman: J. van Langen, Head of Process Technology Department, Estel Hoogovens BV.- - Rapid devolatilization in the coking process.- - Partial repair of damaged coke chamber walls.- - Summary of the round table "A" Coke and the blast furnace.- - Summary of round table "B" Pollution problems.- - Closing address.- List of Participants.