Design of a furnace with vertical gas generation chamber

Category Plans and charts

Year of manufacture/creation 1930s

Manufacturer/author Pintsch & Dr. Otto G.m.b.H

Place of manufacture/creation Germany

Size Height: 63 cm
Width: 45 cm

Material paper

Museum/Storage location Gasworks Museum in Paczków

Date of admission to the museum 1991

Rights to the exhibit Gasworks Museum in Paczków

Rights to digital images public domain

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Exhibit description

The design shows a Koppers system continuous furnace with a vertical chamber. Such a furnace was heated by gas from central generators. This way, the temperature in the furnace chamber reached truly "hellish" heights, such as 1200-1250 degrees Celsius.

These types of furnaces were very efficient. They made it possible to obtain as much as 480-640 m³ of gas from one tonne of coal. For rotary furnaces, this value was almost twice as low (300-350 m³ gas). For this reason, such furnaces were used especially in large gasworks.
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