• Clean Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.60-84
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• 1996

• Clean Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.15-29
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• 1996

• Clean Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.150-164
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• 1996

• Clean Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.67-79
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• 1995

• Clean Technology
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.28-33
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• 1995

• Food Industry And Nutrition
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.11-14
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• 2015

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.441-452
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• 1987

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.517-525
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• 2016

The present work investigates the effect of $K_2CO_3$ catalyst on steam gasification of Kideco coal and the deactivation of the catalyst due to thermal exposure and interaction with coal ash. The gasification reactivity at $700^{\circ}C$ is highly enhanced by $K_2CO_3$, which is not deactivated by the heat treatment at $T{\leq}800^{\circ}C$. TGA and XRD results prove minor decomposition of $K_2CO_3$ after the calcination at $800^{\circ}C$. $K_2CO_3$ is, however, evaporated at the higher temperature. Assuming the conversion of $K_2CO_3$ into $K_2O$ by the decomposition and into $K_2O{\cdot}2.5SiO_2$ and $KAlO_2$ by the interaction with coal ash, the reactivity of the gasification is evaluated in the presence of $K_2O$, $K_2O{\cdot}2.5SiO_2$ and $KAlO_2$. Among them, $K_2O$ is the most active, but much lower in the activity than $K_2CO_3$. XRD results show that $K_2CO_3$ could react readily with the ash above $700^{\circ}C$.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.234-238
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• 2016

Solid ash-free coal (AFC) samples recovered from solvent-extracted solution by vacuum drying, dilution precipitation and spray drying methods were compared in terms of physical properties and chemical structure. AFC was prepared by using Kideco coal (Indonesian sub-bituminous coal) and polar N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) solvent as raw materials. The physical properties of the AFCs were characterized with proximate, ultimate, and calorific value analysis. In analyzing the chemical structure, FTIR and NMR were used. the proximate analysis showed much reduced ash in the AFCs compared to parent raw coal. The FTIR result showed that the extraction solvent was not fully removed from the AFC prepared by vacuum drying. However, the solvent was not detected in the AFC recovered by using dilution precipitation. Dilution precipitation has advantages over the other two methods, since it can be done at relatively low temperature and separate ash-free coal from extraction solvent more effectively.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.559-569
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• 2018

Catalytic supports made of carbon have many advantages, such as high coking resistance, tailorable pore and surface structures, and ease of recycling of waste catalysts. Moreover, they do not require pre-reduction. In this study, ash-free coal (AFC) was obtained by the thermal extraction of carbonaceous components from raw coal and its performance as a carbon catalytic support was compared with that of well-known activated carbon (AC). Nickel was dispersed on the carbon supports and the resulting catalysts were applied to the steam reforming of toluene (SRT), a model compound of biomass tar. Interestingly, nickel catalysts dispersed on AFC, which has a very small surface area (${\sim}0.13m^2/g$), showed higher activity than those dispersed on AC, which has a large surface area ($1,173A/cm^2$). X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis showed that the particle size of nickel deposited on AFC was smaller than that deposited on AC, with the average values on AFC ${\approx}11nm$ and on AC ${\approx}23nm$. This proved that heteroatomic functional groups in AFC, such as carboxyls, can provide ion-exchange or adsorption sites for the nano-scale dispersion of nickel. In addition, the pore structure, surface morphology, chemical composition, and chemical state of the prepared catalysts were analyzed using Brunauer-Emmett-Taylor (BET) analysis, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, and temperature-programmed reduction (TPR).