Patent ID: 7097743

Claim:
A method for operating a coke oven battery comprising a large number of identical coking chambers, a raw gas receiver, and throttle devices arranged in the raw gas receiver for individually controlling the gas pressure in the coking chambers, whereby the throttle devices each comprise an immersion bucket acted upon by water and having a sealable drain, and whereby the coking chambers are connected with the raw gas receiver by gas lines terminating in immersion pipes in the immersion buckets of the throttle devices, wherein: (a) the throttle devices comprise an overflow vertically adjustable by an actuating drive for controlling the level of the liquid in the immersion bucket; (b) for a coking chamber to which a measuring device for measuring the chamber pressure with a position signal transmitter is allocated for controlling the actuating drive, the actuating signals allocated to the time pressure curve during the carbonization from coal to coke are recorded for the actuating drive in the form of a position-time curve; and (c) actuating drives are controlled by throttle devices according to the position-time curve, said throttle devices being allocated to coking chambers without pressure control devices.