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| The synfuels program that has evolved during the past thirty years will be described. In the early years of the laboratory, the emphasis was on direct coal liquefaction (DCL) to support demonstration plants that were operated and commercial plants to be located in Kentucky that progressed to the design stage. The Center developed a shale oil research program to develop technologies applicable for Eastern U.S. oil shales. It was demonstrated that rapid-heating fluid bed retorting significantly increased the oil yield for Eastern shales. With the low oil prices of the 1980s, both DCL and oil shale studies were drastically scaled back. The DCL studies continued for several years as part of the Consortium for Fossil Fuel Science (CFFS). A program on Fischer-Tropsch synthesis was undertaken in the late 1980s and has developed so that the Center now operates one of, if not the largest, laboratory that is open to the public. |
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Coal Conversion to Clean Liquid and Gaseous Fuels
8:15 AM-12:10 PM, Monday, August 20, 2007 Boston Park Plaza -- Chartes River Room, Oral
Division of Fuel Chemistry |