Hydroliquefaction of Taiheiyo coal and Yallourn coal in the presence of tar-sand bitumen (Athabasca, Cold Lake, Morichall) has been studied using batch autoclave under the various conditions to investigate the reactivity of coal and the relationship between reaction conditions and coal conversions.
The results obtained here can be summarized as follows,
1) Coals were significantly converted into THE solubles and hexane solubles using tarsand bitumen as a solvent.
2) Conversion were not so much affected by the species of bitumen.
3) In the case of Taiheiyo coal, maximum conversion was achieved at 430°C, and for Yallourn coal, its conversion decreased above 400°C.
4) At 420°C in reaction temperature, conversions were unaffected by reaction time within 2h.
5) Improvement of the coal conversion in coprocessing depended on coal, namely, in the case of Taiheiyo coal, coprocessing gave much more hexane solubles than coal liquefaction, but in the case of Yallourn coal, the conversion was not improved. These results are ascribed to the different reactivity of coals.
It should be noted that the coal conversion obtained from coprocessing were comparable to those obtained from liquefaction in tetralin which is well known as a good hydrogen donor solvent.
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