Coal hydrogasification process development. Volume I. Coal studies. Second annual technical progress report, Government fiscal year 1980

This second annual technical progress report presents a detailed summary of work performed during Government Fiscal Year 1980 on coal hydrogasification process development. The several program tasks are structured to support logical progress toward process development and, eventually, commercialization. During this period, testing was concluded in a short-test-duration, engineering-scale, hydrogasification test facility. Test results helped to establish an adequate data base for proceeding confidently with the other program tasks. Correlation of the data, using nonlinear multiple regression techniques, against a set of phenomenological hydropyrolysis reactions is leading to a powerful analytical predictive tool. The design was completed and construction started on a 3/4-TPH integrated process development unit capable of continuous operation for up to 30 days. To support an ambitious schedule for facility construction by subcontractors, much of the needed equipment has been ordered by advance procurement action. Structural steel erection is in progress. Other subcontracted construction work has been postponed for budgetary reasons.