Zinc halide hydrocracking process for distillate fuels from coal. Quarterly technical progress report, May 1--July 31, 1976

Technical Report · Sun Aug 15 04:00:00 EDT 1976

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7247481· OSTI ID:7247481

The bench-scale, continuous, zinc chloride hydrocracker operated through May and completed production of 300 lb of spent catalyst for regeneration studies. The Colstrip subbituminous coal used in this work gave a distillate oil yield of over 50 wt. percent of the MAF coal. The bench-scale, continuous regenerator operated throughout the quarter, exploring the operating limits as affected by temperature and percentage of HCl in the feed air. Good burn-out of carbon and sulfur in natural spent catalyst was demonstrated. From 0.5 to 1.5 percent of the zinc fed remains with the coal ash collected via cyclone. Batch studies have shown that up to 94 percent of this zinc can be recovered by simple secondary treatment of these solids. Approval was received from ERDA to proceed with construction and operation of the 100 lb/hr Process Development Unit. Placing of orders is underway.

• Research Organization: Conoco Coal Development Co., Library, Pa. (USA). Research Div.
• OSTI ID: 7247481
• Report Number(s): FE-1743-24
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
010405* -- Coal
Lignite
& Peat-- Hydrogenation & Liquefaction
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
CARBON
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CATALYSTS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CHLORIDES
CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
COAL
COAL LIQUEFACTION
CRACKING
DECOMPOSITION
DESIGN
ELEMENTS
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL OILS
FUELS
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HEATING OILS
HYDROCRACKING
LIQUEFACTION
METALS
NONMETALS
OIL YIELDS
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PYROLYSIS
RECOVERY
REGENERATION
SUBBITUMINOUS COAL
SULFUR
YIELDS
ZINC
ZINC CHLORIDES
ZINC COMPOUNDS
ZINC HALIDE PROCESS
ZINC HALIDES