Arc--Coal Acetylene Process Development Program. Quarterly Technical Progress Report No. 4, October 1--December 31, 1978

摘要

Data taken from the Avco 200 kw Arc Coal Reactor facility provides increasing optimism for this acetylene producing process. Continued improvements in the reactor design have been accomplished over the past three months. These improvements result in data which, when reduced and analyzed, yield SER's well below 5.0. Further, these SER values are an improvement over those of the comparable OCR program test data results under the same test conditions. The anode and cathode designed for this 200 kw Chemical Facilities have performed well with no visible degradation after minor adjustments in the geometry and operating procedures. The data taken to date, both with and without quench, within this facility underline the importance of commencing work on the 1 Mw Arc Coal Acetylene PDU where SER values between 3.5 and 4.0 are a clear probability. With values of SER in this range, the arc coal process is economically attractive as a competitor to the ethylene process for manufacturing vinyl chloride monomer and vinyl acetate monomer. A summary of the 200 kw facility test results in Appendix A is a synopsis of a Topical Technical Report submitted earlier. (ERA citation 04:051195)