Operation of the Wilsonville Advanced Coal-Liquefaction R and D Facility, Wilsonville, Alabama. Quarterly technical progress report, July-September 1981

Technical Report · Sun Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6771491

This report summarizes the operating conditions and test results which were obtained during the third quarter of 1981 at the six ton per day Advanced Coal Liquefaction R and D Facility in Wilsonville, Alabama. The SRC unit operated for approximately 70% of the period with scheduled shutdowns accounting for more than 20% of the downtime. Kentucky 9 coal from the Fies mine was processed during all runs. Potential process improvements and tests were evaluated in the respective process units. In the SRC Unit: Evaluation of low severity reactor conditions for two-stage liquefaction; evaluation of the V103 High Pressure Separator in the hot separator mode of operation at low severity reaction conditions; and investigation of the correlation between dissolver operating conditions and hydrogen leakage. In the CSD Unit: Off-line steam stripping of SRC to reduce DAS losses. In the HTR Unit: Performance evaluation of the unit at various reactor temperatures; and estimation of catalyst deactivation by duplicating previous run conditions after a given operating period.

• Research Organization: Southern Co. Services, Inc., Birmingham, AL (USA); Catalytic, Inc., Wilsonville, AL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC22-76ET10154
• OSTI ID: 6771491
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/10154-110; ON: DE83000110
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010405* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Hydrogenation & Liquefaction
CATALYSTS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COAL LIQUEFACTION
COAL LIQUIDS
CONSUMPTION RATES
CRACKING
DATA
DEACTIVATION
DEASHING
DECOMPOSITION
ELEMENTS
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FLUIDS
FRACTIONATION
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
HYDROCRACKING
HYDROGEN
HYDROGENATION
INFORMATION
LIQUEFACTION
LIQUIDS
NONMETALS
NUMERICAL DATA
OPERATION
ORGANIC SOLVENTS
PILOT PLANTS
PYROLYSIS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLVENTS
SRC PROCESS
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
YIELDS