主催: 日本エネルギー学会, 石炭科学部会, コークス工学研究部会, 重質油部会
共催: 日本学術振興会 石炭・炭素資源利用技術第 148 委員会, 化学工学会 エネルギー部会, （公財）北九州観光コンベンション協会, ガス化部会, 燃焼部会, 「エネルギー学」部会
会議名: 第55回石炭科学会議
回次: 55
開催地: 北九州国際会議場
開催日: 2018/10/29 - 2018/10/30
p. 70-71
Victorian brown coal in Australia is an important resource because of its huge reserve and low mining cost, and is only used for power generation near its mine. After oil crisis during 1970s, the BCL (Brown Coal Liquefaction) process has developed to liquefy it into transportation fuel, but it is not commercialized because the coal-derived fuel is not competitive economically with petroleum. The coal-liquefied products contain poly-aromatics, heterocyclic compounds and pitch, which have potential to be used as feedstocks for coke-binder and carbon-materials. When the products are used as chemical feedstocks, their value increases compared to fuel; the plant capacity and liquefaction conditions become small and mild. This means that the configuration of the BCL process is modified and the cost of the coal-liquefied products decreases. As a result, the modified BCL process is able to become an efficient and noble utilization technology of the brown coal.
