Chemicals from coal. Quarterly technical progress report, January--March 1976

Technical Report · Fri Apr 30 04:00:00 EDT 1976

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7186876· OSTI ID:7186876

Peters, B. C.

The Dow Chemical Company, under the sponsorship of ERDA, is studying the possibility of using coal-derived liquids as chemical feedstocks. Specifically, Dow is testing the liquids produced from four coal liquefaction processes (COED, SRC, Synthoil, and H-Coal) in standard petrochemical processing experiments and is evaluating these results to select one process for further study, based on process design, quality of chemicals produced, and overall plant economics. In this quarter, the COED hydrotreated naphtha was catalytically reformed as had been done with the H-Coal hydrotreated naphtha. The naphtha fractions from each stage of the hydrocracking of COED mid-distillates were combined and hydrotreated. The hydrotreated product was then successfully reformed. Hydrotreating of the combined H-Coal two stage hydrocrackate naphthas was begun. First pass hydrocracking of the Synthoil mid-distillate was completed, and second pass hydrocracking of the resulting hydrocrackate mid-distillate fraction was commenced. Various other petrochemical processing experiments are discussed briefly.

• Research Organization: Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich. (USA). Hydrocarbons and Energy Research Lab.
• OSTI ID: 7186876
• Report Number(s): FE-1534-29
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010405* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Hydrogenation & Liquefaction
010500 -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Products & By-Products
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHROMATOGRAPHY
COAL LIQUEFACTION
COAL LIQUIDS
COED PROCESS
CRACKING
DECOMPOSITION
DISTILLATES
EVALUATION
H-COAL PROCESS
HYDROCRACKING
HYDROGENATION
LIQUEFACTION
PETROCHEMICALS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PROCESSING
PYROLYSIS
REFORMER PROCESSES
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SRC PROCESS
SYNTHOIL PROCESS