Laboratory support for H-Coal Project. Phase III. Monthly progress report No. 69, April 1981. [Reactions in preheater]

Technical Report · Fri May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:6434256

The bench-scale run using the 34-foot-long preheater with coal slurry, but without the reactor, has been completed. In the preheater, under thermal reaction, the coal will undergo several stages of reaction. Whitehurst describes these as: (1) dissolution; (2) hydrogen transfer; and (3) hydrogenation. The purpose of this once-through preheater run is to find out how coal dissolves in the coil preheater; i.e., how coal swells in the solvent and disintegrates. Slurry products coming out of the preheater are analyzed by extraction, defining the product compositions as: oil - pentane soluble; asphaltenes - pentane insoluble/toluene soluble; preasphaltenes - toluene insoluble/THF soluble; and IOM - THF insolubles minus ash in the insolubles. An economic evaluation has been completed on phenol recovery from H-Coal liquids using solvent extraction and HRI's Dynaphen Process. The evaluation concludes that there is an incentive to recover phenol from H-Coal liquids. A complete discussion of the evaluation is included in this monthly report.

• Research Organization: Hydrocarbon Research, Inc., Lawrenceville, NJ (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-77ET10152
• OSTI ID: 6434256
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/10152-T5; ON: DE81023931
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010405* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Hydrogenation & Liquefaction
AROMATICS
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
COAL LIQUEFACTION
COAL LIQUIDS
DATA
ECONOMICS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
EXTRACTION
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FLUIDS
H-COAL PROCESS
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
INFORMATION
LIQUEFACTION
LIQUIDS
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PHENOL
PHENOLS
RECOVERY
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLVENT EXTRACTION
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES