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Jcg Corporation

Akio Furuta

Kazuo Sato

Masatoshi Yamada

Tooru Matsuzawa

Kunio Sato

Takashi Saitoh

Tsutomu Katagiri

Hirokazu Fujie

Masao Tsurui

Yoshinori Suto

Jin Ogawa

Takao Takinami

Hiroo Matsuoka

Seiichi Matsuoka

Kouji Tamura

Tsunekichi Yamabe

Hirofumi Ito

Shinji Takano

Kazuhiro Shibata

Masayuki Yui

Masanori Asakura

Takashi Goto

Satoshi Endoh

Yuji Itoh

The present invention relates to a method for cleaning heavy hydrocarbon scale from a shell and tube heat exchanger or other such equipment incorporated in a device in a petroleum refining plant or the like that processes petroleum hydrocarbons as a raw material. A mixture of petroleum-derived hydrocarbon A which can dissolve the oil component of the heavy hydrocarbon scale and an oxygen-containing polar organic compound B that promotes dissolution and dispersion is employed as the organic cleaning solvent. As a result, the heavy hydrocarbon scale can be removed with surety within a short period of time at low cost.

Method for cleaning heavy hydrocarbon scale adhered to heat exchanger and piping structure for cleaning

In a coal-water slurry producing system, low grade coal is wet-ground to not greater than 3 mm in particle size to produce a ground coal slurry. An upgrading treatment is applied to the ground coal slurry under a pressurized hydrothermal atmosphere not less than 300.degree. C. to produce an upgraded coal slurry. The upgraded coal slurry is subjected to a dehydration treatment to produce an upgraded coal cake and a filtrate. A final coal-water slurry is produced from the upgraded coal cake. The filtrate is recycled for producing the ground coal slurry. A slurry transfer mechanism is provided in the coal-water slurry producing system for ensuring a stable transfer of the upgraded coal slurry from a high-pressure slurry vessel to a low-pressure slurry vessel.

Coal-water slurry producing process, system therefor, and slurry

A liquid hydrocarbon such as a natural gas liquid generally contains a small amount of mercury in a state of elemental mercury, ionized mercury, ionizable mercury compounds, which are requested to be removed thoroughly. Further, organic mercury compounds are contained in some natural gas liquid and other liquid hydrocarbons depending on their district of production, and its removal is also necessary. Already known adsorbents can adsorb elemental mercury and organic mercury compounds in a liquid hydrocarbon, but they hardly adsorb ionizable mercury compounds and ionized mercury derived from the ionizable mercury compounds. According to the preesent invention which comprises contacting the liquid hydrocarbon with a sulfur compound represented by a general formula MM'S.sub.x, wherein M is selected from a group consisting of alkali metal and ammonium radical, M' is selected from a group consisting of alkali metal, ammonium radical and hydrogen an x is a number of at least 1, the sulfur compound and mercury in the liquid hydrocarbon reacts to form mercury sulfide which is insoluble in the liquid hydrocarbon to be separated therefrom. If the liquid hydrocarbon contains organic mercury compounds together with elemental mercury ionized mercury and ionizable mercury compounds, the above-mentioned process is to be combined with a process of contacting the liquid hydrocarbon with an adsorbent comprising heavy metal sulfide to adsorb the organic mercury compounds together with the mercury sulfide which is formed in the above-mentioned process.

Process for removal of mercury from a liquid hydrocarbon

Liquid hydrocarbons such as natural gas liquid generally contain elementary mercury, ionized mercury and ionizable mercury compounds. All of them are requested to be removed. Further, organic mercury compounds are contained in some natural gas liquid and other liquid hydrocarbons depending on their district of production, and its removal is also necessary. It has been found that an adsorbent composition comprising multi-component metal sulfides supported on a carrier wherein one of metal component is molybdenum of 3-15 weight-% calculated as molybdenum metal in final product and another metal component is selected from the group consisting of cobalt and nickel, the atomic ratio of these to molybdenum being in the range of 0.05-0.9 can adsorb more amount of elemental mercury from hydrocarbons than the conventional adsorbents. It has been found further that the mercury in the forms of inorganic and organic compounds can also be adsorbed as well as elemental mercury from liquid hydrocarbons containing them by the adsorbents of the present invention.

Method for removing mercury from a liquid hydrocarbon

A catalyst for the synthesis of methane by the hydrogenation of carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide, comprising alumina, nickel and barium or sodium; and a process for the preparation of said catalyst, comprising firstly having barium or sodium carried on alumina and secondly having nickel carried thereon.

Process for the preparation of a catalyst for the synthesis of methane

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Akio Furuta