Canadian Researchers Getting Close to Start of Pilot-Scale Coke Oven
10/20/2016 - The Canadian Carbonization Research Association’s pilot-scale energy recovery coke oven is about 70 to 75 percent complete and is scheduled to start up sometime in January or February, according to CanmetENERGY’s Louis Giroux.
Giroux, who spoke during the Smithers Apex Met Coke World Summit in Pittsburgh, Pa., said the association has even taken delivery of 10,000 to 15,000 pounds of blended mid-vol metallurgical coal, enough to perform approximately 10 pilot tests, he said.
“I think everybody is anxious to get this up and going,” he said.
The association is building the pilot-scale oven to enable more research into the processes at work inside such ovens.
Energy recovery ovens are different from the traditional slot-doored by-product coke ovens in that they operate under negative pressure and are heated by burning the volatile gases wafting off the baking coal. By-product coke ovens, meanwhile, operate under positive pressure and collect the gases, which are piped away and processed into other chemicals.
The pilot oven is being built at the CanmetENERGY Laboratory in Ottawa, Canada.
“I think everybody is anxious to get this up and going,” he said.
The association is building the pilot-scale oven to enable more research into the processes at work inside such ovens.
Energy recovery ovens are different from the traditional slot-doored by-product coke ovens in that they operate under negative pressure and are heated by burning the volatile gases wafting off the baking coal. By-product coke ovens, meanwhile, operate under positive pressure and collect the gases, which are piped away and processed into other chemicals.
The pilot oven is being built at the CanmetENERGY Laboratory in Ottawa, Canada.
