Coal Situations, Coal Policies and the Status of Coal Liquefaction Process Development in USA

Abstract

The trend of coal liquifaction process developments, especially SRC-I, SRC-II, EDS and H-coal, is described.It should be noted that the process is being improved for producing light distillate and middle distillate at 5-7 % hydrogenation, which can allow ash-rich vacuum residue of coal liquid to be handled as slurry.