Char oil energy development. Volume I. final report, August 18, 1971--June 30, 1975
Project COED has been under development by FMC Corporation since 1962. The COED process converts coal to synthetic crude oil, char and gas. The synthetic crude oil is low in sulfur and can be used as feedstock to a refinery or directly as a source of naphtha and fuel oil through simple distillation. The gas can be sold as fuel gas or converted by application of additional technology to pipeline gas or hydrogen. The residual char can be used as a power-plant fuel, or gasified to clean fuel gas for power generation through the application of further technology. Several years of bench-scale development work led to the successful operation of a 100 lb. per hour process development unit followed by the design, construction and operation of a pilot plant designed to process 36 tons of coal per day and to hydrotreat 30 barrels of coal-derived liquid per day. Design capacities have been achieved on all parts of the pilot plant. Significant accomplishments have been demonstrated in solids circulation between multiple fluidized-bed reactors, in the filtration of coal oil and in the upgrading of the coal oil to synthetic crude oil through fixed bed hydrotreating. The COED plant has processed from seven different geographic sources, ranging in ASTM rank from lignite to high-volatile A bituminous coal.
- Research Organization:
- FMC Corp., Princeton, N.J. (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7357897
- Report Number(s):
- FE-1212-T-9
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Lignite
& Peat-- Hydrogenation & Liquefaction
CHARS
COAL LIQUEFACTION
COAL LIQUIDS
COED PROCESS
ECONOMICS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENGINEERING
FILTRATION
FLUIDIZED BED
FLUIDS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
LIQUEFACTION
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PILOT PLANTS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
TESTING