TITLE: Coal Liquefaction: Investigation of Reactor Performance, Role of Catalysts and PCT Properties. Quarterly Progress Report, April 1-June 30, 1984.

AUTHOR: A. J. Brainard; Y. T. Shah; J. W. Tierney; I. Wender; S. Bhattacharjee.

INST.  AUTHOR: Pittsburgh Univ., PA.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  1984,  22p.

ABSTRACT:

Work is in progress to incorporate in the coal liquefaction simulation program information regarding stability of the steady state if the operating conditions are in a region of multiple steady states. The simulator is also being modified to include kinetic data from existing pilot plant data. The first draft on an analysis of Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis prepared in the previous quarter was revised during this quarter. The revision has been completed. This part of the report, besides F-T synthesis, includes the Kolbel-Englehardt reaction and Isosynthesis.  The first drafts on the Mobil methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology and on the synthesis of methanol and the use of methanol as a fuel were prepared during this quarter. The history of methanol production, chemistry of and catalysts in methanol synthesis, kinetics of methanol synthesis in an industrial reactor, current production technologies, methanol from coal, three-phase methanol synthesis and methanol as a fuel are discussed in the section on methanol. The final report on heat of reaction is almost complete. Material and energy balances around the dissolver were done with existing data, and correlations available on coal liquids were compared with the actual experimental data reported by Stephenson (1981). A comparison of the predictions of existing correlations of the vapor pressure of coal liquids and the experimental data reported by Gray and Holder (1982) is being done. 2 references. (ERA citation 09:037074)

REPORT  NUMBER: DOE/PC/60054-T3

CONTRACT  NUMBER: FG22-83PC60054