Coal liquefaction catalyst development. Final report, September 29, 1979-September 30, 1981
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:5525223
This report discusses the results of work aimed at developing new catalysts for the H-Coal liquefaction process. The scope of the work extended over all the five task areas. Testing of several new catalyst formulations was completed. Promising candidates were found in the areas of stabilized aluminas and novel catalyst systems. These formulations were tested in the continuous aging unit. The addition of chromia to AMOCAT 1A (CoMo on bimodal alumina) was found to improve overall activity. Catalysts in the form of 1/8 in. extrudates were found to deactivate slower than 1/16 in. or 1/32 in. extrudates. Various batches of SRC-II heavy distillate were found to have markedly different abilities to act as donor solvents. Molten SnCl/sub 2/ was shown to be an effective catalyst promoter in a 6-day continuous aging unit run. Molten SnCl/sub 2/ supported on bimodal alumina also was an extremely active coal liquefaction catalyst. The HRI acid treating regeneration technique increased average micropore diameter of spent HDS-1442A to the same range as AMOCAT 1A and the catalyst behaved similarly in continuous aging studies. The feasibility of using the Amoco continuous aging reactor for screening SRC-I upgrading catalysts was demonstrated and AMOCAT 1C (Ni-Mo on bimodal alumina) was found to have the highest upgrading activity. A technique to measure MoS/sub 2/ dispersion was developed. This type of dispersion was found to play a key role in catalyst deactivation.
- Research Organization:
- Amoco Oil Co., Naperville, IL (USA). Research and Development Dept.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC22-79ET14803
- OSTI ID:
- 5525223
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ET/14803-T8; ON: DE83008148
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010405* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Hydrogenation & Liquefaction
CATALYSTS
CATALYTIC EFFECTS
CHEMICAL PREPARATION
CHLORIDES
CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
COAL LIQUEFACTION
COBALT
DATA
ELEMENTS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
H-COAL PROCESS
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
INFORMATION
LIQUEFACTION
METALS
MOLYBDENUM
NICKEL
NUMERICAL DATA
PERFORMANCE TESTING
REGENERATION
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SYNTHESIS
TESTING
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
TIN CHLORIDES
TIN COMPOUNDS
TIN HALIDES
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
010405* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Hydrogenation & Liquefaction
CATALYSTS
CATALYTIC EFFECTS
CHEMICAL PREPARATION
CHLORIDES
CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
COAL LIQUEFACTION
COBALT
DATA
ELEMENTS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
H-COAL PROCESS
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
INFORMATION
LIQUEFACTION
METALS
MOLYBDENUM
NICKEL
NUMERICAL DATA
PERFORMANCE TESTING
REGENERATION
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SYNTHESIS
TESTING
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
TIN CHLORIDES
TIN COMPOUNDS
TIN HALIDES
TRANSITION ELEMENTS