Chemical and Toxicologic Characterization of CO-Processing and Two-Stage Direct Coal Liquefaction Materials

摘要

Recent advances in coal liquefaction have included two-stage direct coal liquefaction processes and petroleum resid/coal co-processing technology. Two-stage coal liquefaction processes are generally comprised of a first-stage thermal or liquefaction reactor followed by a second-stage hydrogenation step. Petroleum resids and coal are simultaneously converted to liquefaction products in co-processing technology. The purpose of this paper is to report the prelimianry results of the chemical analysis and toxicological testing of a coal liquefaction co-processing sample set, and to compare these results to those obtained from two-stage coal liquefaction materials. Samples were chemically characterized by chemical class fractionation, gas chromatography, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and low-voltage probe-inlet mass spectrometry. Toxicological activity was measured using the standard histidine reversion microbial mutagenicity test and an initiation/promotion assay for mouse skin tumorigenesis. A brief description of these methods are presented and results are discussed. 9 refs., 2 figs., 3 tabs. (ERA citation 11:049688)