METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF SOLID CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS TO FLUID PRODUCTS

摘要

Solid carbonaceous materials and particularly coal are converted to gas hydrocarbon liquid by forming an aqueous slurry in which an amalagam of carbonaceous and non-carbonaceous particles are suspended in water. The slurry is mixed together with an agglomerating liquid lyophobic to water and non-carbo-naceous particles and lyophilic to carbonaceous particles to form a mixture, and the mixture is agitated to preferentially agglomerate carbonaceous fine particles to form discrete agglomerates having chemical and physical properties which are known and which are substantially uniform and constant. The non-carbon-aceous fine particles remain substantially unagglomerated in the slurry and are separated from the discrete agglomerates. The discrete agglomerates or reconstituted particles are then heated to greater than 1500.degree.F and preferably greater than 2000.degree.F in a controlled atmosphere to convert them into a gaseous product of unique purity and properties. Alternatively, the reconstituted particles or discrete agglomerates are to a temperature of about 750.degree.F to 1000.degree.F under controlled conditions to form a liquid product.