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US 4,411,766 AGranted
Iron catalyzed coal liquefaction process
AssigneeAir Products and Chemicals, Inc.
InventorsDiwakar Garg, Edwin N. Givens
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AssigneeAir Products and Chemicals, Inc.
InventorsDiwakar Garg, Edwin N. Givens
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A process is described for the solvent refining of coal into a gas product, a liquid product and a normally solid dissolved product. Particulate coal and a unique co-catalyst system are suspended in a coal solvent and processed in a coal liquefaction reactor, preferably an ebullated bed reactor. The co-catalyst system comprises a combination of a stoichiometric excess of iron oxide and pyrite which reduce predominantly to active iron sulfide catalysts in the reaction zone. This catalyst system results in increased catalytic activity with attendant improved coal conversion and enhanced oil product distribution as well as reduced sulfide effluent. Iron oxide is used in a stoichiometric excess of that required to react with sulfur indigenous to the feed coal and that produced during reduction of the pyrite catalyst to iron sulfide.
A process for the catalytic solvent refining of coal to generate liquid hydrocarbons, hydrocarbon gas and normally solid dissolved coal from the feed coal wherein particulate coal in a suspension of hydrogen donor coal solvent is reacted in a reducing atmosphere in the presence of a combination of co-catalysts of iron oxide and pyrite in which the iron as iron oxide is in a stoichiometric excess of that needed to react with substantially all sulfur available in-situ in the reaction medium so as to product additional iron sulfide catalyst, to eliminate substantially all of the hydrogen sulfide in the reactor effluent and to increase the liquid hydrocarbon content of the product distribution.
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