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Title: Integrated coke, asphalt and jet fuel production process and apparatus

Patent Application ·
OSTI ID:5901993

A process and apparatus for the production of coke, asphalt and jet fuel from a feed of fossil fuels containing volatile carbon compounds therein is disclosed. The process includes the steps of pyrolyzing the feed in an entrained bed pyrolyzing means, separating the volatile pyrolysis products from the solid pyrolysis products, removing at least some coke from the solid pyrolysis products, fractionating the volatile pyrolysis products to produce an overhead stream and a bottom stream which is useful as asphalt for road pavement, condensing the overhead stream to produce a condensed liquid fraction and a noncondensable, gaseous fraction, and removing water from the condensed liquid fraction to produce a jet fuel-containing product. The disclosed apparatus is useful for practicing the foregoing process. The process provides a useful method of mass producing these products from materials such as coal, oil shale and tar sands. 1 fig.

Research Organization:
USDOE Morgantown Energy Technology Center, WV (USA)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
Assignee:
Dept. of Energy
Patent Number(s):
PATENTS-US-A7422479
Application Number:
ON: DE91011647; PPN: US 7-422479
OSTI ID:
5901993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English