Assembling and operation of a solvent coal extraction device

PETR 160

Josefa M. Griffith, jmg32@psu.edu, The Energy Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 214 Research East Bldg, University Park, PA 16802, Caroline Burgess Clifford, Department of Energy & Geo-Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 120 Hosler, University Park, PA 16802, Leslie R. Rudnick, lrudnick@psu.edu, The Energy Institute, Pennsylvania State University, C211 Coal Utilization Lab, University Park, PA 16802, and Harold H. Schobert, schobert@ems.psu.edu, Energy & Geo-environmental engineering, Pennsylvania State Univeristy, C211 Coal Utilization Building, Pennsylvania State Univeristy, Univeristy Park, PA 16802.
This paper summarizes our work in the building of a high temperature extraction/filtration device which could be used to extract coal using refinery streams like LCO and/or DO. We aim to switch between LCO and DO to produce a feedstock for hydrotreating or a feedstock for the co-coking, respectively. In the first case, using LCO as a solvent for the extraction will allow us to produce liquid material from coal (extract) suitable as feedstock for hydrotreating in the JP-900 production. In the second case, using DO as a solvent for the extraction will allow us to produce a clean (hypercoal) coal that will be used as feedstock for the co-coking process. In both cases the solvent extraction process will save us the steps of blending the extract with these solvents before sending this material for either hydrotreating or co-coking.
 

Chemistry of Petroleum and Emerging Technologies
1:30 PM-3:50 PM, Thursday, 14 September 2006 Palace -- Presidio Room, Oral

Division of Petroleum Chemistry

The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006