Pittsburgh coal liquefaction process

Synthoil A coal liquefaction process in which coal, suspended in oil from the process, is hydrogenated over a cobalt-molybdenum catalyst on alumina. The process was piloted by the Pittsburgh Energy Research Center at Bruceton, PA, in the 1970s using several types of coal, but it was abandoned in 1978. See also CSF, H-Coal. 

Ireland Mine hvAb coal was used in the coal pyrolysis studies. The method of heat treatment was essentially that reported by Petrakis and Grandy (8), Ireland Mine coal was also the feed coal used to obtain most of the coal liquefaction products. The coal-derived liquids investigated were centrifuged liquid products (CLP) and their subfractions from selected runs in the Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center s 400-lb coal/day coal liquefaction process development unit (PDU) (9). 

Peng, X.D., Toseland, B.A., Wang, A.W., and Parris, G.E. Progress in development of PPMDE process Kinetics and catalysts. Presented at the 1997 Coal Liquefaction and Solid Fuels Contractors Review Conference. Pittsburgh, PA, September 3-4, 1997. 

Schmid, B.K. and Jackson, D.M. The SRC-II Process, Third Annual International Conference on Coal Gasification and Liquefaction, University of Pittsburgh, August 3-5, 1976. 

Schmid, B. K. Jackson, D. M. "Recycle SRC Processing for Liquid and Solid Fuels", presented at the Fourth Annual International Conference on Coal Gasification, Liquefaction Conversion to Electricity, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 2-4, 1977. 

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