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Report on a conference on facilities for chamber installations for liquid-phase and vapor-phase hydrogenation (in German)

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6570493
What equipment and what space and housing for that equipment was necessary for the proposed hydrogenation plant Gladbeck are discussed. The plants were to build five liquid-phase chambers, each containing three ovens and producing gasoline and fuel oil, but to allow for a later extension to six chambers, each containing four ovens and producing gasoline alone. If the preheaters for the three-oven chambers were made large enough to handle operations without coal paste heat exchange, then they would be adequate to handle four-oven chambers with paste heat exchange. It was suggested that spraying of cold oil into the hot separator could lower amounts to be handled in the hot recirculation system, and that by separate spraying of cold sludge (probably into the ovens, but not specified in the report) one could raise throughputs and lower usage of cold gas. Each chamber needed to have six coal-paste presses totalling 80 m/sup 3//hr capacity to handle the separate injection of a thin paste and a thick paste (especially if coal paste heat exchange was to be used), and pasting oil and maybe cold sludge. There was discussion of the most efficient arrangement for these presses and related gas circulation pumps and oil circulation pumps. It was specified how many vapor-phase chambers there were to be originally, but space was to be left to allow for the addition of two 700-atm vapor-phase chambers later.
Research Organization:
Hydrierwerke Scholven, A.G., Buer (Germany)
OSTI ID:
6570493
Report Number(s):
TOM-11-351-353
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
German