Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho

Idemitsu Kosan Company, Limited

Nippon Brown Coal Liquefaction Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Limited

Mitsubishi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Asia Oil Company Limited

Idemitsu, Kosan Kabushiki-kaisha

Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation

Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd.

Nippon Kattan Ekika Kabushiki Kaisha

Aziaseiyu Kabushiki Kaisha

Aziasekiyu Kabushiki Kaisha

Tetsuo Matsumura

Yukio Nakako

Yoichi Kageyama

Osamu Okuma

Yasuo Sugino

Kaizaburo Saito

Nobuyoshi Hirokoh

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Tomoji Takahashi

Toshio Ohzawa

Yutaka Mito

Toshiaki Okui

Shin-ichi Katsushima

Shun-ichi Yanai

Shin-ichi Oya

Tatsuo Hirano

Osamu Ohkuma

Saburo Sawada

Koji Murakoshi

Shun'ichi Yanai

Kazuhiro Mae

Akihiro Kawashima

Toshio Ozawa

A method for hydro-liquefying coal, the method comprising preheating a slurried mixture of a pulverized coal and a solvent, the preheated mixture being supplied to a plurality of reactors; separating a gaseous content from the products resulting from the reaction; dehydrating the gaseous content and removing a light oil content therefrom, thereby obtaining hydrogen-content gases; and recycling the hydrogen-content gases at least to the first reactor and supplying it to the bottom thereof so that the light oil content in the solvent is stripped.

Method of coil liquefaction by hydrogenation

A process for converting coal to an oil fraction, which comprises subjecting coal to a first hydrogenation reaction, deashing the reaction product of the first hydrogenation reaction and subjecting the deashed liquefied oil to a second hydrogenation reaction, wherein coal, a solvent and hydrogenation-treated heavy oil components are supplied for the first hydrogenation reaction; from the first hydrogenation reaction product, at least a part of the oil fraction is obtained; from the first hydrogenation reaction product, a substantial amount of preasphaltene components is removed simultaneously with or independently of the deashing operation, and the deashed liquefied oil containing heavy oil components and not greater than 20% by weight of preasphaltene components thereby obtained, is supplied for the second hydrogenation reaction; from the second hydrogenation reaction product, an oil fraction and heavy oil components are separated and the heavy oil components are recycled to the first hydrogenation reaction in an amount of at least 20% by weight relative to the heavy oil components in said deashed liquefied oil.

Process for converting coal to an oil fraction

A starting slurry composed of raw brown coal and a solvent is heated and pressurized, subjected to gas-liquid separation and dehydration and then to hydrogenation/liquefaction. The CO.sub.2 -containing gas produced in the preheating/dehydration step and/or a CO.sub.2 -containing gas supplied from outside the system is blown into the slurry in the above-mentioned preheating/dehydration step, whereby carbonate-forming metal components in the brown coal are converted to the carbonates thereof in advance. In this manner, the hydrogenation/liquefaction efficiency is improved, and stabilized long-term continuous operation is attained.

Method of treating brown coal for liquefaction

A method for the liquefaction of brown coal which comprises effecting primary hydrogenation at a temperature and pressure sufficient to promote the efficient hydrogenation of a slurry prepared by adding an iron-based catalyst and a slurrying solvent to brown coal; distilling all or a portion of the primary hydrogenation product, whereby a naphtha fraction, a middle distillate oil fraction, a heavy distillate oil fraction and a distillation residue are produced; recycling a portion of said middle distillate oil, said heavy distillate oil fraction and said distillation residue to said primary hydrogenation step as the slurrying solvent; removing ash from the remaining portion of the distillation residue, thereby separating the same into an insoluble fraction containing ash, insoluble organic matter or a mixture thereof, and a soluble fraction as a solution in said solvent; and feeding said soluble fraction and said middle and heavy distillate fractions, to a fixed-bed column reactor packed with a molybdenum-based catalyst for secondary hydrogenation at a temperature and pressure sufficient to promote the efficient hydrogenation thereof; and separating the naphtha fraction from the secondary hydrogenation product and recycling all or a portion of the remainder to said primary hydrogenation step as the slurrying solvent therefor.

Method of liquefying brown coal

A process for converting coal, comprising, subjecting a slurry composed essentially of coal, a hydrocarbon solvent and a hydrogenation catalyst to primary hydrogenation to liquify the coal, separating the ash content of said coal from the reaction product thereby obtaining a liquified product, subjecting at least a portion of the liquified product to secondary hydrogenation in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst thereby converting the liquified product to light oil product, the secondary hydrogenation step being a point of supply of hydrogenation catalyst to the coal conversion system, separating the hydrogenation catalyst from the reaction product of the secondary hydrogenation step, and returning said separated hydrogenation catalyst to the primary hydrogenation step where it is used as the catalyst for primary hydrogenation of said slurry.

Process for converting coal

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