Process for removing arsenic and/or antimony from oil shale distillate or coal oil

摘要

An improvement in a process of removing arsenic and/or antimony from their chemical compounds in a substantially organic liquid by treating the latter with hydrogen under a superatmospheric pressure and at an elevated temperature, the improvement residing in applying this process to the liquid distillate of oil shale or coal or one derived from the gasification of coal, said liquid containing oil shale dust or coal dust whereby elementary arsenic and/or antimony is deposited on said oil shale dust or said coal dust and said oil shale dust or said coal dust containing elementary arsenic and/or antimony is removed therefrom.