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Modified coal-tar pitch

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5361280
A coal-tar pitch material is described which is obtained by the process which consists in mixing an undistilled coaltar material with a solvent which consists of at least one of the following n-methyl-2-pyrollidone and the fraction of a coal-tar distillate which boils between 100/sup 0/ and 350/sup 0/C. The mixing is carried out at a temperature such as to form a solvent-dissolved fraction and a solvent-undissolved fraction, separating and removing the solvent-undissolved fraction of the undistilled coal-tar material, the undissolved fraction containing Q.I. having a high content of ash-forming impurities and using the solvent-dissolved fraction to produce coal-tar material with a decreased Q.I. and lower impurities by distilling the solvent-dissolved fraction of the undistilled coal-tar material to obtain from the solvent-dissolved product a pitch material having a toluene insoluble content of over 20%, a beta resin content of over 15%, a quinoline insoluble content of less than 5% and ash content of less than 0.1%.
Assignee:
Domtar, Inc., Montreal
Patent Number(s):
US 4604184
OSTI ID:
5361280
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English