Refining and upgrading of synfuels from coal and oil shales by advanced catalytic processes. Quarterly report, January--March 1977

Technical Report · Sat Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1977

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5387252· OSTI ID:5387252

Sullivan, R. F.

The objective of this program is to determine the feasibility and estimate the economics of hydroprocessing four synthetic fuels to distillate fuels, including high octane gasoline, using presently available technology. The feedstocks include three coal-derived synthetic crudes and shale oil. The first feedstock is Paraho crude shale oil, produced in the indirectly heated mode. Whole shale oil was hydrofined in a 2000-hour pilot plant test using ICR 106 catalyst. The results show that shale oil containing 2.2 percent nitrogen can be hydrofined to residuum-free product containing 1 to 2 ppM nitrogen in a single stage. Process design studies indicate that it is preferable to hydrofine the whole shale oil to about 500 ppM nitrogen and then to fractionate the product before conventional downstream processing to produce transportation fuels. The product resembles the fraction of a waxy petroleum crude boiling below 1000/sup 0/F. This report includes yields and product properties determined from the small-scale pilot plant test. A larger-scale pilot plant demonstration run is now in progress.

• Research Organization: Chevron Research Co., Richmond, Calif. (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EX-76-C-01-2315
• OSTI ID: 5387252
• Report Number(s): FE-2315-12
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010405 -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Hydrogenation & Liquefaction
04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
040403* -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Refining
040404 -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Purification
090121 -- Hydrocarbon Fuels-- Chemical Synthesis-- (1976-1989)
10 SYNTHETIC FUELS
CATALYSTS
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COAL LIQUIDS
CRYOGENIC FLUIDS
DENITRIFICATION
ECONOMICS
ELEMENTS
ENERGY SOURCES
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FILTRATION
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FRACTIONATION
FUELS
GASOLINE
HYDROGENATION
MINERAL OILS
NITROGEN
NONMETALS
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PROCESSING
REFINING
REMOVAL
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SHALE OIL
SYNTHETIC FUELS
SYNTHETIC PETROLEUM
YIELDS