Structural parameters coal liquid fractions

Table II. Proton Distribution and Structural Parameters of Coal-Liquid Fractions (7)...

Table V shows yields and structural parameters of SP-300 fractions. These fractions were black solid materials like the feed coal, as compared to dark-brown viscous liquids of the HVL-P fractions. The overall average molecular weight of SP-300 was more than three times that of HVL-P. SP-300 fractions have much larger R, RN and //cl than HVL-P fractions. The //cl values disclosed that there were, on the average, 2.8 aromatic clusters per molecule in SP-300, as compared to 1.1 aromatic clusters per molecule in HVL-P. Thus SP-300 fractions are high molecular weight materials,in which the degree of depolymerization is relatively low. This in turn suggests that SP-300 has retained more of the original structures of the parent coal than has HVL-P.

It was shown previously that coal liquids from five major demonstration processes (Synthoil, HRI H-Coal, FMC-COED, PAMCO SRC, and Catalytic Inc. SRC) could be separated reproducibly, in high yields (94-99%) into five fractions by solvent fractionation (1,2). We now wish to report structural characterization parameters obtained for these materials by the use of proton nuclear magnetic resonance ( H NMR). 

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