EDS coal-liquefaction-process development. Phase V. Annual report, July 1, 1980-June 30, 1981

Technical Report · Fri Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6786957

The major objective of this project was to develop the EDS coal liquefaction process to a stage of commercial readiness so that commercial plants can be designed and built when needed. Specific objectives were: to establish a data base to enable scale-up of the EDS process to commercial size with normal technical risk; to establish a data base for reliable determination of costs and the economics of the EDS process on a commercial scale; to establish the data base needed to evaluate the production of utility fuels from EDS products and to estimate the production costs of such fuels; to provide quantities of EDS products for testing at utility sites; and to verify in ECLP the EDS yield structure as predicted by laboratory unit operation (100 lb/day and 1 tpd). In addition to the small-scale pilot units (100-lb/day RCLU and 1-tpd CLPP), the 250-tpd ECLP, built and operated at Baytown, Texas, is the major tool in the ongoing process scale-up effort. The project, provides for ECLP operation with three coals of various rank: (1) bituminous coal from the Monterey Mine, (2) subbituminous coal from the Wyodak Mine, and (3) Texas lignite from the Martin Lake Mine. The completion of ECLP on March 21, 1980, was a significant milestone in the EDS project. It has provided the large-scale integrated hardware that is required to bring the major components of the EDS project to commercial readiness.

• Research Organization: Exxon Research and Engineering Co., Florham Park, NJ (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FC05-77ET10069
• OSTI ID: 6786957
• Report Number(s): EPRI-AP-2604; ON: DE83003040
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010404 -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Gasification
010405* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Hydrogenation & Liquefaction
08 HYDROGEN
080107 -- Hydrogen-- Production-- Coal Gasification
AROMATICS
BROWN COAL
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CARBONIZATION
CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COAL
COAL GASIFICATION
COAL LIQUEFACTION
COAL LIQUIDS
COKING
COMBUSTION
DATA
DECOMPOSITION
DISTILLATES
EMISSION
ENERGY SOURCES
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
EXXON LIQUEFACTION PROCESS
FLUID MECHANICS
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
GASIFICATION
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
HYDROGENATION
INFORMATION
KINETICS
LIGNITE
LIQUEFACTION
LIQUIDS
MATERIALS
MECHANICS
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC SOLVENTS
OXIDATION
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PILOT PLANTS
POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT UNITS
REACTION KINETICS
RECYCLING
RESIDUES
SOLVENTS
STORAGE
TESTING
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
YIELDS