Co-gasification reactivity of petroleum coke with coal and coal liquefaction residue

Abstract

In this work, experimental study on co-gasification of petroleum coke with coal and coal liquefaction residue (CLR) under CO2 atmosphere was investigated in a temperature-programmed reactor. The effect of ashes from coal/CLR and metallic oxide on gasification reactivity of petroleum coke was also investigated. The calculated and experimental gasification conversion was compared to analysis the synergetic effect during co-gasification. The results indicated that the petroleum coke has a much lower reactivity than that of coal/CLR chars, while it can be greatly improved by co-gasifying with coal/CLR. The synergetic effect on co-gasification of petroleum coke with coal/CLR was presented as the progress of co-gasification reaction. It was found that the synergetic effect can be enhanced with increasing coal proportion. However, as the increase of coal rank, the synergetic effect gradually weakened during the co-gasification process. In the selected coal/CLR samples, the low rank coal and CLR exhibited a better effect when co-gasifying with petroleum coke. The difference of synergetic effect was probably attributed to the catalytic effect of mineral matters in different coal/CLR. According to composition analyses of various ashes and the co-gasification reactivity of samples, it can be concluded that high content of active components such as Ca- and Fe-in coal/CLR was beneficial to co-gasifying with petroleum coke, while high content of inert Si- and Al- components in coal tended to resist the reaction.