Refining and upgrading of synfuels from coal and oil shales by advanced catalytic processes. Monthly report, April 1977
Activities are reported in a program to determine the feasibility and to estimate the economics of hydroprocessing synthetic crude feedstocks to distillate fuels using presented available technology. The first feedstock is shale oil. The oil used in this evaluation is Paraho crude shale oil, produced in the indirectly heated mode. Pilot plant studies evaluating hydroprocessing of the whole shale oil have been in progress for about six months. Shale oil makes an excellent catalytic cracking feedstock provided its nitrogen content is reduced to at least 0.1 percent by appropriate hydrofining. Gasolines and cycle oils derived from the cracking of hydrofined shale oils are similar to those obtained from the cracking of hydrofined petroleum gas oils. The second feedstock is solvent refined coal (SRC). In SRC processing, an analysis of hydrofining feedstock was conducted and hydrofining tests were planned. (JRD)
- Research Organization:
- Chevron Research Co., Richmond, CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EX-76-C-01-2315
- OSTI ID:
- 7093008
- Report Number(s):
- FE-2315-13
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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010400 -- Coal
Lignite
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04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
040400* -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Oil Production
Recovery
& Refining
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CRACKING
DECOMPOSITION
ECONOMICS
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
HYDROCRACKING
HYDROGENATION
MINERAL OILS
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PILOT PLANTS
PYROLYSIS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SHALE OIL
SOLVENT-REFINED COAL
SYNTHETIC FUELS
SYNTHETIC PETROLEUM
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES