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Extraction of coal
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Inventors: Jones, William Derek; Kimber, Geoffrey Michael; McLaren, James; Price, David Watkin;
Assignee: Coal Industry (Patents) Limited (London, GB2)
Primary Examiner: Levine; Herbert
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher
Coal can be extracted with high boiling aromatic oils produced by extracting the aromatic constituents of a heavy petroleum material, e.g. a bitumen residue, using a selective solvent, mixing the extract with a low-boiling aromatic solvent, adding water and separating the aromatic-containing phase and recovering said aromatic constituents. The resulting coal extract is particularly suitable for the production of electrode coke. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION We claim: 1.
A high boiling aromatic solvent oil for the solvent extraction of coal, produced by extracting a heavy petroleum material with a solvent which selectively removes the aromatic components which are suitable for use as a solvent for coal from the material, admixing the extract with an aromatic solvent selected from benzene, toluene and xylene, washing out with water the selective solvent from the admixture and recovering said aromatic components to form said solvent oil.
2.
A solvent oil as claimed in claim 1, wherein the heavy petroleum material is selected from crude oil, petroleum oil distillate, tar distillate, tar residue, cracker residual oil and bitumen.
3.
A solvent oil as claimed in claim 1, wherein the selective solvent is selected from one or more of ethylene glycol, di-ethylene glycol, N-methyl pyrrolidone, sulpholane, N-formyl morpholine, .
alpha.
-butyrolactone and methyl isobutyl ketone.
4.
A solvent oil as claimed in claim 1, wherein the selective extraction is carried out in the liquid phase, at room temperature and ambient pressure.
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A solvent oil as claimed in claim 4, wherein the selective solvent is N-methyl pyrrolidone.
6.
A process for the production of a high boiling aromatic solvent oil for the solvent extraction of coal, which process comprises extracting a heavy petroleum material with a solvent which selectively removes the aromatic components which are suitable for use as a solvent for coal from the petroleum material, admixing the extract with an aromatic solvent selected from benzene, toluene and xylene, washing out with water the selective solvent from the admixture and recovering said aromatic components to form said solvent oil.
7.
In the method of extracting coal comprising the step of contacting coal with a liquid solvent oil at elevated temperature, the improvement comprising using a solvent oil comprising the solvent oil of claim 1.
8.
In the method of producing electrode coke from coal comprising the steps of extracting coal with a liquid solvent oil at elevated temperature, separating undissolved coal and mineral matter from the extract and coking the purified extract, the improvement comprising using a solvent oil comprising the solvent oil of claim 1
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