Hydrocracking anthracene

Dealkylation, fragmentation, and hydrogenation of substituted polynuclear aromatics may also occur. The following is a representative example of hydrocracking of a substituted anthracene. 

Hydrocracking of coal, coal oil, anthracene and phenanthrene was carried out in batch stirred tank reactors (Figures 1 and 2) in the temperature range 450 - 540 c under pressures up to 3500 psi. Reactor... 

A bituminous coal from Utah (Table I) was used in this work. The coal oil (Table II) used was obtained from a bituminous coal by hydrogenation using zinc chloride as the catalyst in a semi-continuous reactor system. Anthracene, phenanthrene, WS9 and NIS used were pure grade chemicals of over 99% purity. H-zeolon was a synthetic mordenite cracking catalyst and was supplied by Norton Chemical Company. NIS-H-zeolon was prepared by spraying nickel on H-zeolon with a subsequent sulfiding operation. NIS-WS -SiO -A1 O. catalyst used was a commercial hydrocracking catalyst. Analyses of reactants and products were done by standard methods. 

Product distribution data (Table V) obtained in the hydrocracking of coal, coal oil, anthracene and phenanthrene over a physically mixed NIS-H-zeolon catalyst indicated similarities and differences between the products of coal and coal oil on the one hand and anthracene and phenanthrene on the other hand. There were differences in the conversions which varied in the order coal> anthracene>phenanthrene coal oil. The yield of alkylbenzenes also varied in the order anthracene >phenanthrene>coal oil >coal under the conditions used. The alkylbenzenes and C -C hydrocarbon products from anthracene were similar to the products of phenanthrene. The most predominant component of alkylbenzenes was toluene and xylenes were produced in very small quantities. Methane was the most and butanes the least predominant components of the gaseous product. The products of coal and coal oil were also found to be similar. The most predominant components of alkylbenzenes and gaseous product were benzene and propane respectively. The data also indicated distinct differences between products of coal origin and pure aromatic hydrocarbons. The alkyl-benzene products of coal and coal oil contained more benzene and xylenes and less toluene, ethylbenzene and higher benzenes when compared to the products from anthracene and phenanthrene. The gaseous products of coal and coal oil contained more propane and butanes and less methane and ethane when compared to the products of anthracene and phenanthrene. The differences in the hydrocracked products were obviously due to the differences in the nature of reactants. Coal and coal oil contain hydroaromatic, naphthenic, heterocyclic and aliphatic structures, in addition to polynuclear aromatic structures. Hydrocracking under severe conditions yielded more BTX as shown in Table VI. The yields of BTX obtained from coal, coal oil, anthracene and phenanthrene were respectively 18.5, 25.5, 36.0, and 32.5 percent. Benzene was the most... 

Hydrocracking of coal, coal oil, anthracene and phenanthrene was carried out in batch stirred tank... 

It will be an ultimate problem for hydrocracking of coal or heavy petroleum residues to transform effectively polycondensed aromatics to lower hydrocarbons. Two simplified model compounds of polycondensed aromatics were adopted, i.e., anthracene (ANT) which is linear and phenanthrene (PHN) which is angular cata-con-densed aromatics. Processes for degradation of these molecules to lower hydrocarbons, preferably to monocyclic aromatics, have been explored. 

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