The Gas Light and Coke Company was founded in London in 1812 as the first real public utility, producing coal gas as a part of the coking process in large central plants and distributing it through underground pipes to individual users; soon many major cities had gasworks and distribution networks.
Taking the exergy loss minimization as the optimization objective, an optimization model of coking process is established based on the material balance and energy balance.
In 2013, in a patent (Zhou et al. 2013a, b), Zhou Min et al. improved the coking process and added a microwave pretreatment after the coal blending process.
The developed model of membrane deactivation capitalizes on the observations of a critical H/C ratio beyond which the H2 flux is stable, at a given temperature, and similarly a critical temperature at a given H/C ratio that limit the coking process.
Coker gas oil (CGO), a main product derived from the coking process, can be used as the feedstock of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit.
Coke oven workers have a high probability of exposure to PAHs during the coking process.
A speculation model was proposed for explanation of the coking process over the catalyst with the nitrogen effect.
Coke drums are vertical pressure vessels used in the delayed coking process in petroleum refineries.
BP Oil Refineria de Castellon SA has selected Foster Wheeler USA Corp to supply a process design package for a delayed coking plant based on Foster Wheeler's Selective Yield Delayed Coking Process for its refinery in Castellon, Spain.
For a typical 6-m-height coke oven, the average temperature in roof space over coal load keeps rising till 14 h; and then shows a slight increase at around 1150 K until the end of the coking process, when the central temperature of the coal/coke bed reaches 1273 K at about 18.1 h.
A two dimensional transient model of coal carbonization was developed to simulate the coking process including heat transfer and fluid flow in the coking chamber.
