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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 1983
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1981
James N Francis, Houston, TX (US);
Lavanga R Veluswamy, Houston, TX (US);
Exxon Research and Engineering Co., Florham Park, NJ (US);
Abstract
Metal constituents are recovered from the heavy bottoms produced during the liquefaction of coal and similar carbonaceous solids in the presence of a catalyst containing a metal capable of forming an acidic oxide by burning the heavy bottoms in a combustion zone at a temperature below the fusion temperature of the ash to convert insoluble metal-containing catalyst residues in the bottoms into soluble metal-containing oxides; contacting the oxidized solids formed in the combustion zone with an aqueous solution of a basic alkali metal salt to extract the soluble metal-containing oxides in the form of soluble alkali metal salts of the metal-containing oxides and recycling the soluble alkali metal salts to the liquefaction zone. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the bottoms are subjected to partial oxidation, pyrolysis, coking, gasification, extraction or a similar treatment process to recover hydrocarbon liquids and/or gases prior to the burning or combustion step.