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
Tags
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.