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H-Coal process and plant design

US4400263A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 9, 1981
Grant dateAug 23, 1983
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Expiry dateFeb 9, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC10G1/002
  • WIPO fieldBasic materials chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A process for converting coal and other hydrocarbonaceous materials into useful and more valuable liquid products. The process comprises: feeding coal and/or other hydrocarbonaceous materials with a hydrogen-containing gas into an ebullated catalyst bed reactor; passing the reaction products from the reactor to a hot separator where the vaporous and distillate products are separated from the residuals; introducing the vaporous and distillate products from the separator directly into a hydrotreater where they are further hydrogenated; passing the residuals from the separator successively through flash vessels at reduced pressures where distillates are flashed off and combined with the vaporous and distillate products to be hydrogenated; transferring the unseparated residuals to a solids concentrating and removal means to remove a substantial portion of solids therefrom and recycling the remaining residual oil to the reactor; and passing the hydrogenated vaporous and distillate products to an atmospheric fractionator where the combined products are fractionated into separate valuable liquid products. The hydrogen-containing gas is generated from sources within the process.

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