Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Inc.

Chiyoda Chemical Engineering Construction Co., Ltd.

Sumikin Coke Company Limited

Takao Ishihara

Takaaki Aiba

Hisatsugu Kaji

Yasuo Sakaguchi

Tomizo Endo

Kiyoji Ozaki

Yutaka Sumida

Hajime Nakanishi

Shoichi Motokawa

Kiyoji Sanpei

Masato Izumi

Kunio Watanabe

Hiroshi Nabatame

Toshio Shinozuka

Disclosed herein are a method for batchwisely calcining and activating infusibilized spherical pitch beads in an upper stage and a lower stage fluidized beds formed on respective perforated plates, by calcining the pitch beads in the upper stage at 600-800.degree. C. with a heated exhaust gas from a space for the lower stage, discharging activated carbon beads of the previous batch from the space for the lower stage, stopping the fluidization of the upper stage by guiding the exhaust gas from the space for the lower stage to the space for the upper stage through a bypass line so that the calcined beads can fall down to the space for the lower stage through the holes of the perforated plate of the upper stage, and activating the falling calcined beads at 800-1200.degree. C. while forming the lower stage fluidized bed with a heated calcining and activating gas, and a furnace used for the above method.

Method for activating infusibilized pitch beads

Disclosed is a method for the thermal cracking of a heavy petroleum oil to produce a pitch with a high aromaticity having a high softening point, the ratio of H/C of about 0.4 to 1.1 and the fraction insoluble in n-heptane but soluble in quinoline of higher than 55% by weight and an oil mainly composed of aliphatic hydrocarbon by feeding the heavy petroleum oil into a reaction system and bringing it therein into contact with a gas which does not react with the heavy petroleum oil, of a temperature in the range of from 400.degree. C. to 2000.degree. C., which method is improved by using, as the reaction system, a plurality of reaction vessels arranged in series and having their interior temperatures successively lower by a fixed step in the direction of the transfer of the charge.

Method for thermal cracking of heavy petroleum oil

Disclosed herein is a method of thermally cracking a heavy petroleum oil by introducing the heavy petroleum oil into a reactor and contacting the heavy petroleum oil thus introduced with a gas, which does not react with the heavy petroleum oil, at a temperature of 400.degree.-2000.degree. C. thereby thermally cracking the heavy petroleum oil. The method uses plural reactors and introduces the heavy petroleum oil into the reactors in a specified manner, and charges the reactor in advance with a specified amount of heavy petroleum oil of a specified temperature.

Method of thermally cracking heavy petroleum oil

A demister is disclosed containing a plurality of bubble-cap trays and a plurality of sieve trays beneath the bubble-cap trays and arranged so that the distance between the uppermost sieve tray and the bottom surface of the lower-most bubble-cap tray is at least twice the distance between adjoining sieve trays. A spray nozzle for washing the bottom surface of the lowermost sieve tray with a cleaning oil is also provided.

Apparatus and method for removing pitch from thermally cracked gas

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Takao Ishihara