To obtain lower olefins, especially ethylene in high yield, pyrolytic cracking of 120-360°C fraction of low temperature tar from Miike coal and TOhoku lignite has been investigated. These results were compared with those about petroleum oils, i.e. gas oil and cracking stock.
They were pyrolyzed with superheated steam in stainless steel reactor (50mm∅) packed with chamotte brick (4-7mesh, 500cc).
In the preliminary investigation of pyrolysis of cracking stock, better results were obtained when steam/oil ratio was 6g/cc and liquid space velocity was 1.0vol/hr. Then these conditions were applied for other oil and tar.
Content of olefins in cracked gas from tar is not so high as those from petroleum oils.
Yield of ethylene from neutral oil of Miike tar is nearly the same as cracking stock, about 22% by weight, but that from unwashed tar is lower than that from neutral tar oil or cracking stock, about 17% by weight, yield of olefins except ethylene from neutral tar oil is about half of that from petroleum oil, especially at 700
°C. In gas worth (Japan heat unit X 10
4/k/ k
l), tars are especially inferior to petroleum oils.
There is proportional relation between the result of pyrolysis and C/H (wt) ratio of the charge oil or residual carbon; volume of cracked gas, yield of olefins, calorific#value of gas and gas worth etc. decrease with increasing C/H ratio or residual carbon.
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