Abstract
Foundry coke is a special type of coke with lumps size usually bigger than 100 mm. Therefore it is difficult to asses its physical properties representatively for whole lot. There exist international standards for coke sampling and testing strength index (usually Micum test). Nevertheless companies dealing with foundry coke notified problems with methodology of sampling and sample preparation for the test. Manual sampling according to ISO 18283 is very labour extensive and with connection with literally proceeding with ISO 566 gives non-representative results for foundry coke +100 mm. For this reason on the basis of these standards there was evaluated procedure for coke sampling and testing strength indexes which is more practical for plant routine use and gives more reliable results in comparison to international standard. This article presents results of work aimed at checking usability of ISO standards provisions for foundry coke testing and evaluation and validation of simplified procedure.
Analysis of the requirements for foundry coke
