Coal-liquefaction catalyst development. Annual report No. 1, April 1, 1979-June 30, 1980

Technical Report · Fri Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6694754

Mahoney, J A; Helstrom, J J; Pellet, R J

This report discusses the results of work aimed at developing new catalysts for the H-Coal liquefaction process. Catalytic baseline runs continued with HDS-1442A in order to improve our baseline statistics as well as to monitor batch reactor performance. Testing of several new catalyst formulations was completed. Promising candidates were found in the areas of stabilized aluminas and novel catalyst systems. These formulations will be tested in the continuous aging unit. A major portion of our effort this quarter was concerned with ascertaining the liquefaction behavior of a Western coal such as Wyodak with Amocat type catalysts. H-Coal continued to concentrate on the evaluation of the large 500 pound batch of Amocat-1A to be used in the HRI PDU tests. Final product analyses were completed and the large batch of Amocat-1A clearly exhibited improved performance over the H-Coal catalyst, HDS-1442A. This batch of Amocat-1A will be used in HRI's 3 T/D pilot plant run, PDU-10. Catalysts from four other DOE contractors were evaluated and found to have poorer initial liquefaction activity, deactivation rates and selectivity than Amocat 1A. Techniques to correlate catalyst activity in the HRI units and the Amoco continuous aging unit were investigated.

• Research Organization: Amoco Oil Co., Naperville, IL (USA). Research and Development Dept.
• DOE Contract Number: AC22-79ET14803
• OSTI ID: 6694754
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/14803-T7; ON: DE83004460
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010405* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Hydrogenation & Liquefaction
CATALYSTS
COAL LIQUEFACTION
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DATA
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
H-COAL PROCESS
INFORMATION
LIQUEFACTION
NUMERICAL DATA
PERFORMANCE TESTING
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
TESTING
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES