In recent years, although the China government has carried out some serious investigation and effort to shut down the indigenous coke-production, it has not achieved effective control. The main image TM754 (red, green, blue) false color composite of Shanxi province in northern China was chosen as the study area in this paper. The indigenous coke-production sites are regions which appear red and...

The danger excessive coking pressure poses to the integrity and longevity of coke ovens has been recognized for many years [1-7]. During carbonisation in a coke oven fissures in the coke are generated due to stresses that arise from the differential contraction rates in adjacent layers of coke, which are at different temperatures [8]. Typically they are longitudinal, i.e. perpendicular to the o...

Coke oven, which is a large industrial furnace, is complex in structure. A two-dimensional structure diagram can hardly help one observe the inner structure of a coke oven or master its working principle comprehensively. In order to solve this problem, a complete 3D digital model of a coke oven is generated by assembling the three-dimensional models of coke oven components created with SketchUp...

High pellets ratio operation forced by burden material restrictions at Kobe Steel resulted in the development of a center coke charging process based on centralized gas flow principle. This methodology produced a novel approach to burden distribution, coal combustion and pellets operation, in which these processes are viewed as part of a chain reaction. As a result of these developments, furnac...

Coke-oven workers are exposed to dust and irritant gases. Therefore they are at risk of developing lung diseases including chronic bronchitis. Nonspecific bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) has been advocated as a potential risk factor predisposing to the development of chronic bronchitis. In a previous study, we showed that prevalence of BHR was higher in retired coke-oven workers than in ret...

Samples of active coke, fresh and spent after cleaning flue gases from communal waste incinerators, were investigated. The outer layers of both coke particles were separately removed by comminution in a spouted bed. The samples of both active cokes were analysed by means of densities, mercury porosimetry, and adsorption technique. Remaining cores were examined to determine the degree of consump...

We describe a case of epileptic seizures after a massive intake of diet coke. Apart from the hyponatremia due to water intoxication the convulsions can be potentiated by the high dose of caffeine and aspartame from the diet coke. To our knowledge this is the first report of seizures due to excessive diet coke intake.