Catalytic conversion of gaseous tar using coal char catalyst in the two-stage downer reactor

Yuan Jiang, Peijie Zong, Yuan Bao, Xin Zhang, Haixin Wei, Bin Tian, Yuanyu Tian, Yingyun Qiao and Juntao Zhang

Energy, 2022, vol. 242, issue C

Abstract: The effect of catalyst height (0–50 mm) and catalyst temperature (600–900 °C) on the catalytic cracking of gaseous tar is investigated using a two-stage down reactor. Results show that the utilization of catalyst promotes the removal of coal tar. The yield of coal tar at the pyrolysis temperature of 900 °C is 7.14% and tar is composed of aromatics and high-carbon-number aliphatics. The coal char prepared by fast coke-making method at 900 °C is directly used as a catalyst in the catalytic cracking of coal tar. When the catalyst temperature and the catalyst height are 900 °C and 50 mm, the tar produced by coal pyrolysis is connected with high-temperature coal char for a short time, reducing the tar yield from 7.14% to 4.26%. Among them, aliphatic hydrocarbons with carbon number of C10 and C11 and aromatics are the main components of coal tar. Similarly, compared with the pyrolysis, the content of CH4 and H2 obtained with the addition of the catalyst increase from 0.56 to 0.97 to 1.64%g/g coal and 1.02%g/g coal, respectively. Moreover, GC/MS results show that the increment of catalyst height and catalyst temperature increases aromatics content and facilitates the conversion of high-carbon-number component to low-carbon-number ones.

Keywords: Catalytic cracking; Coal tar; Coal char; Downer reactor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2021.123013

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