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Summarizing report on hydrogenation of coal--oil slurry under pressures of more than 300 atm with Ruhroel catalyst K413 (in German)

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7307592
Very extensive details are given about a series of experiments run at Welheim at various pressures (550 atm down to 450 atm) on middle oils from coal, both with and without some gasoline content, from Scholven and from Upper Silesia. The catalyst used was Ruhroel K413, pressed into 6 mm pills, in the amount of 3.13 kg, or about 5.3 liters. Since the experiment was still going on at the time of the report, there was no information on any possible damage to the catalyst during the runs. The report tabulated much detail about results of each run, analysis of liquid products, and analysis of gaseous products. The temperature for each run of the experiment was 26.5 millivolts. The runs on gasoline-containing oils used pressures around 550 atm and loading ranging from 1.3 to 1.45 kg/l/hr, and produced yields of about 0.68 to 0.70 kg/l/hr of gasoline with distillation cutoff 165/sup 0/C. The runs on gasoline-free oils used a loading of 1.0 kg/l/hr and pressures from 450 to 550 atm and produced yields of 0.41 (at 450 atm) versus 0.48 to 0.52 kg/l/hr (at 550 atm). Aromatic and olefin content of the gasolines produced was 41 to 42 percent at higher loadings, whereas it was 45 to 47 percent at lower loadings. Octane numbers after addition of 0.05 percent tetraethyl-lead ranged from 85.5 to 87.5.
Research Organization:
Ruhroel, G.m.b.H., Bottrop (Germany)
OSTI ID:
7307592
Report Number(s):
TOM-7-616-642
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
German