FOERFARANDE FOER KONTINUERLIG KOKSNING AV TORV BRUNKOL TRAE OCH DYLIKT I PARTIKELFORM

A process for the continuous coking of peat, bovey coal, wood and the like, in particle form. Dried particles are fed into one end of a reaction chamber, stirred, and coked in the reaction chamber by heating them with hot gases, and the coked particles are removed at the other end of the reaction chamber for the purpose of cooling. The hot gases are fed in the reaction chamber over the particles to be coked in order to achieve a direct heat exchange contact between the gases and the particles. Preferably the hot gases are contacted countercurrently with the upper surface of the particle bed moving through the reaction chamber and the reaction chamber comprises a cylindrical furnace which is rotated around its longitudinal axis to stir the particles and to move them forward in the form of a bed.