Sumitomo Metal Industries, Inc.

Takuo Kanou

Yoshihiko Sunami

Shozo Okamura

Takuji Hosoi

Ryohei Minami

A coal liquefaction process and apparatus therefor are disclosed. According to this invention, a finely divided coal and a solvent are contacted with molecular hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst to provide a slurry, the slurry is separated into a gaseous component, a liquid component and a solid residue, the solid residue which is the liquefaction residue is then supplied to a molten metal bath together with oxygen gas to generate a gas entraining fine powdery solids, and the thus recovered fine powdery solids are returned to the liquefaction process as a catalyst.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takuo Kanou