Synthetic fuels from bituminous coal

Thermodynamic analyses have been conducted for the various process steps in the H-Coal process system for producing synthetic fuels from bituminous coal. A Structured Process Energy-Exergy-flow Diagram (SPEED) for the H-Coal process is presented, which depicts the transformation of energy and exergy among the processes and the hierarchical structure of the process system with a compact format of the SPEED. 

The plant will process 27,836 TPSD of Illinois No. 6 high sulfur bituminous coal containing 4.45 wt% sulfur on an as recieved basis. The output of fuel products form the plant is 15,531 BPSD of naphtha and 51,325 BPSD of syncrude. 1,178 tons per day of elemental sulfur is produced. This represents 95 wt% of the total input sulfur in the feedstock coal. Most of the remaining sulfur is still present in the liquid synthetic crude oil. From the available data for this proposed plant, the output of elemental sulfur is calculated to be 0.0176 tons per product barrel. Since a high sulfur coal was used this represents a high sulfur production case as it is likely that direct liquefaction facilities will use high sulfur Eastern bituminous coals as feedstock. 

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