The strength of industrial cokes. 5. Influence of coke breeze in a coal charge on tensile strength of coke

✍ Scribed by John W. Patrick; Albert E. Stacey

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 599 KB
• Volume: 54
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-2361
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-2361(75)90015-0

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of different proportions and different particle sizes of coke breeze in a coke-oven charge on the tensile strength of the coke. The diametrical-compression test was used to determine the tensile strength of the coke produced in a 10-t test oven and the results obtained were considered in relation to the composition of the oven charge, the coke micum indices and to parameters describing the coke texture.

It was established that breeze additions caused measurable but nonsystematic changes in the coke tensile strength and that decreasing the breeze particle size generally increased the coke tensile strength.

These changes could not however be directly related to changes observed in the density, porosity, pore-wall thickness or mean pore size of the cokes. The previously established relations between micum indices and the tensile strength of foundry cokes were also found to be inapplicable. The conclusion was drawn that the behaviour described is associated with some, at present unestablished, factor of the blend composition, one possibility being the relative proportions and compatibility of the 'binder' and inert material acting through their influence on those aspects of the coke microstructure which control the coke breakage.