Apart from installation of new batteries, there exist other options for
keeping respectively increasing the production capacity of a coke
piant. Economic and environmental requirements have to be taken
into consideration ieading to very simple solutions such as heating
up of old batteries which have been cooled down followed by partial
hot repairs, through-wall repairs and pas up rebuilds. Modernizations with regard to anchoring systems, heating conditions and reduction of typical emissions may be implemented in most cases.