Hydrogenation Canadian coals

Figure 7. Dependence of yields of hydrogenation products on the atomic hydro-gen-to-carbon ratio (a) Australian coals—noncatalytic conditions (10) (b) Canadian coals—catalytic conditions.

This paper touches on the chemistry of coal gasification and liquefaction comments on the current status of conversion processes and the influence of coal properties on coal performance in such processes and examines the contributions which coal conversion could make towards attainment of Canadian energy self-sufficiency. Particular attention is directed to a possible role for the medium-btu gas in long-term supply of fuel gas to residential and industrial consumers to linkages between partial conversion and thermal generation of electric energy and to coproduction of certain petrochemicals, fuel gas and liquid hydrocarbons by carbon monoxide hydrogenation. 

Carson, T. C. Hastings, K. E. Potts, J. D. Caspers, J. Two-Step Coal Liquefaction is a Hydrogen Efficient Route to Distillate Fuels, presented at the Fall Conference, Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering, Sarnia, Ontario, October 2, 1979. 

Canada is the second largest producer of elemental sulfur in the world just behind the U.S., yet a sulfur mine has never operated in this country. This apparent contradiction is the result of hydrogen sulfide being a common contaminant of natural gas in Alberta. Canadian sulfur largely originates from the purification of the gas by the removal of this hazardous chemical. Related industrial sources are petroleum, oil sands and coal, where sulfur is a component within a complex mixture of oiganic compoimds. When sulfur is removed from petroleum, it is nor-... 

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