TITLE: Recent Developments in Indirect Liquefaction Technology.

AUTHOR: R. R. Schehl.

INST.  AUTHOR: Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, PA. Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center.

SPONSOR: Department of Energy, Washington, DC.

LANGUAGE: English

PUB.  TYPE: Technical Report

PUB.  COUNTRY: United States

SOURCE: Department of Energy [DE],  1983,  24p.

NTIS ORDER NO.: DE85012224/INW

ABSTRACT:

The oil crisis of 1973 has rekindled worldwide interest in indirect liquefaction technologies for the production of clean, high-quality motor fuels from coal. The availability of new analytical methods and instrumentation for catalyst and product characterization, molecular sieve catalysts that allow tailoring of product distributions, and high-speed computers for computation and data acquisition has set the stage for revolutionary improvements in process designs. A brief discussion of the historical development of this 60-year-old technology is followed by more detailed descriptions of (a) the process used in South Africa; (b) the Mobil processes, based on their novel zeolite catalyst, that are at the commercialization stage; and (c) the promising new applications that are in the R and D pipeline. 23 refs., 5 figs., 4 tabs. (ERA citation 10:033115)

REPORT  NUMBER: CONF-830542-10