CA2157052A1 - Method of producing coke for the iron and steel industry - Google Patents

Method of producing coke for the iron and steel industry

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CA2157052A1
CA2157052A1 CA002157052A CA2157052A CA2157052A1 CA 2157052 A1 CA2157052 A1 CA 2157052A1 CA 002157052 A CA002157052 A CA 002157052A CA 2157052 A CA2157052 A CA 2157052A CA 2157052 A1 CA2157052 A1 CA 2157052A1
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Joachim F. Meckel
Friedrich Rosner
Friedhelm Kerstan
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Veba Oel Technologie und Automatisierung GmbH
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C10PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10BDESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION OF CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS FOR PRODUCTION OF GAS, COKE, TAR, OR SIMILAR MATERIALS
    • C10B57/00Other carbonising or coking processes; Features of destructive distillation processes in general
    • C10B57/04Other carbonising or coking processes; Features of destructive distillation processes in general using charges of special composition
    • C10B57/06Other carbonising or coking processes; Features of destructive distillation processes in general using charges of special composition containing additives

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Abstract

Proposed is a method of producing coke for use in the manufacture of iron and steel, in particular foundry coke, by mixing charge coal and about 0.5 to 10 %, relative to the coal in the water-free and ash-free state, of a binder, and then coking the mixture. The aim is to produce coke with a relatively low reactivity, the highest possible unit density, the highest possible carbon content and the largest possible lump size. Used as the binder is a vacuum-hydrogenation residue produced in the vacuum distillation stage of the hydrogenation of short residues or heavy oils derived from crude oil, with the addition of an additive consisting of porous carbon bodies made, in particular, of material derived from coal.

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TRANSLATION Fl~OM GERMAN

Cokemaking Process for the Iron and Steel Industry The invention concerns a cokemaking process for the iron and steel industry, especially foundry coke.

Coal charges that are already suitable by nature without admixtures for producing a coke with the desired prope~ lies, like a specified lumpiness and specified abrasion behavior, are hardly available anymore in the required amounts.

In order to obtain the desired properties it is known in cokemaking especially production of foundry coke, that about 5% petroleum pitch (referred to the moisture- and ash-free coal charge) can be added to coal charges, which can already be a mixture of several coal components and coke breeze.

This binder is particularly unavoidable when foundry coke with a high percenlage of carbon is to be produced, since coke breeze is then coemployed as an important coal charge component.

Petroleum pitch is comparatively costly.

A production process for metallurgical coke is known from US-A-4,234,387 in which a coking coal blend with unfavorable coking properties is mixed with a binder, which is formed, for example, as a vacuum distillation residue from hydrogenation of heavy oils or bitumens; however, the vacuum distillation residue from hydrogenation of bitumens from tar sarlds is preferred.

21~70.~2 This binder is used in amounts of as much as 20%, preferably between 5 and 15% (re~erred to the coking coal blend). The initial blends so produced for the coking process exhibit relatively moderate dilation and contraction values. The greater the contraction, the greater the sintering effect of the finely divided coking coal particles at the beginning of gas expulsion of the coking coal, i.e., before its softening. Subsequent dilation as a result of swelling on further degassing of the coking coal is largely responsible for the structure of the coke skeleton. Cokes produced according to this known process therefore already have a comparatively low stability factor, as well as a comparatively low hardness factor - this means limited drum resistance, as well as relatively high abrasion.

With this as a point of departure the instructions of the patent claim solve the problem of producing a coke for the iron and steel industry with relatively limited reactivity, the ~ atesl possible lump density, the highest possible percentage of carbon and the coarsest possible lumpmess.

Because of the invention the base of useable binders is expanded and preferably a particularly cost-effective binder with the least possible health hazards is employed.

Experiments have shown that the binder according to the invention leads to coke properties equivalent to those during the use of so-called petroleum pitch, in which the binder according to the invention is much more cost-effective and contains very few carcinogenic components. In principle the process according to the invention is also employable in the production of blast furnace coke.

The additive in conjunction with the other charge materials of hydrogenation decisively matters, the additive preferably being added in an amount of 1 to 3 wt% referred to the total charge materials of hydrogenation. This additive consists of porous carbonaceous materials that consist, in particular, of material of coal origin and whose internal surface, if possible, is a few hundred, typically 300 m2/g.

21~70~2 This additive surprisingly has not only a reaction-stabilizing and quality-enhancing effect on the hydrogenation products, but also acts as a component of the vacuum hydrogenation residue as a framework-former for the coke skeleton in the coking process according to the invention.

Porous carbonaceous materials can be produced in a variety of ways and are generally known; their effect on the quality of coke, especially for the iron and steel industries, in conjunction with the process according to the invention, on the other hand, was in no way foreseeable.

Hydrogenation of petroleum and petroleum products, like heavy oils and vacuum residues, is known in itself and is described in the standard work concerning hydrogenation technology "Catalytic pressure hydrogenation of coals, tars and mineral oils" by Dr. Walter Kronig, Springer-Verlag, 1950. The hydrogenation conditions vary according to the charge material being hydrogenated. Tn each case it occurs with addition of hydrogen at elevated pressure and elevated temperature, in which typical reaction conditions are 100 to 300 bar system pressure at temperatures between 200 and 500OC. This high-pressure hydrogenationpreferably occurs in a so-called liquid-phase reactor. The product stream leaving the liquid-phase reactor consists of oils, solids and gases and is then separated into two phases, for example, in a hot sepa~ ~tor, namely an overhead product and a bottom product. The bottom product is separated in a subsequent vacuum column from distillable oils (vacuumhydrogenation residue).

The use of hydrogenation residue formed during hydrogenation according to the so-called VCC process (yEBA Combi-Cracking process) is particularly preferred according to the invention. The latest state of the VCC process was published on the occasion of the DGMK
main meeting of 1990 in Munster/Westphalia under the title "New aspects of the VCC
process" by Dr. Klaus Niemann. There is therefore no need to describe it further here.

21~70~S2 Practical Example An industrial VCC unit with 95% conversion processes the charge materials listed in Table I
and produces the products listed in Table 2. The charge materials are further specified in Table 3 and the products in Table 4. The solidified vacuum hydrogenation residue from the vacuum column to be used according to the invention had the chemical-physical properties and particle sizes listed in Table S and was then mixed in an industrial experiment at a coke plant as binder to a coal charge consisting of a mixture of 32.4% of a low-volatile coal with poor coking properties (noncoking coal), ~8.6% of a medium-volatile coal with good coking properties (prime coking coal) and 14.0% coke breeze, as well as S wt% vacuum hydrogenation residue, to produce foundry coke. The coking coal blend and the coke properties obtained after 33 hours of coking time are shown in Table 6. The obtained results with the vacuum hydrogenation residue used as binder according to the invention (right column of Table 6) were compared with the normal operational results of the coke plant (petroleum pitch as binder) according to the prior art (Table 6, left column).

Coking occurred in several ovens of an industrial coke oven battery (Otto design, chamber width 450 mm, chamber height 5.10 m, chamber length 13.1 m, volume 27.64 m3). This large experiment was preceded by many small experiments with the binder according to the invention and other mixing ratios on the order of 3 to 7% binder referred to the moisture-and ash-free coal charge. These pilot experiments were run as optimization experiments in comparison with the use of the usual binder.

The coke yields could be increased by the invention, as is appalellt from Table 6.

The binder according to the invention contains surprisingly few polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

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-Table 1.

Charge materialskglh Vacuum residue166.666 Additive 1.667 Fresh hydrogen7.042 Tur~oine co,~ '12.750 Sum t88.125 Table 2.

Products kg/h MP gas 8.384 LP gas 13.045 01~ gas 18 Naphtha 24.081 Gas oil 86. j63 Vacuum gas oil31.525 Vacuum hydrogen residue 9.203 Dilute acid solution 15.306 Sum 188.125 2~57~52 Table 3. Specification of the charge materials.

Vacuum residue: Arabian Light TBP Ult. . ~.,CtiOI1 point C 565+
Density (15-C) kg/dm3 1.022 Carbon wt% 84.38 Hydrogen wt% 10.30 Sulfur wt% 4.34 Nitrogen wt% 0.38 Oxygen wt% 0.6 Ash wt% about 0.02 Solids not stated Nickel ppm by weight 25 Vanadium ppm by weight 114 Iron not stated Asphaltenes wt% 10 Conradson carbon wt% 20/3 Viscosity 50-C cSt 150,500 100-C cSt 1589 Additive Porous calbol-àce~,us ,..1. ,~ e from a coal material with an internal surface of about 300 m21g (is virtually u~,Ldng~,d by hyd,~gel~a~;oll to the extent detectable) Fresh hydrogen Hydrogen (Hz) min99.6 mol%
Nitrogen (Nz) max 0.2 mol%
Methane (CH~) max 0.1 mol%
thane (CzH6) max 0.1 mol%

21~70~2 Table 4. Specification of the product.

MP/LP gas: irlternal use Naphtha TBP boiling range C5+ -180 C
Sulfur <20 ppm l~itrogen <20 ppm Gasoline/Gas oil gap (ASTM D86 95/5%) min. 15 C
Gas oil lBP boiling range t80-343 C
Sulfur <100 ppm Water content <50 ppm Cetane number >38 Gas oil/Vacuum gas oil overlap (ATSM D86) 95/5% max. 30 C
Vacuum gas oil TBP boiling range 343 ~C+
Sulfur <600 ppm Nitrogen ~600 ppm Aniline point Metals .~ I ppm Solidified hydrogenation residue (contains the employed additive) TBP boiling range 524 C+
Analysis C 86.0 wt%
H 6.0 wt%
O 0.5 wt%
N 1.0 wt%
S 2.5 (2-4) v~t%
Inorganic cu.l",un.,l.t~ 4.0 (2-4) wt%
Solids (toluene-insoluble) 20-40 wt%

21570~2 -Table 5.

Chemical-Physical ~ ,.t;es Densiq (at 15-C)1300-1500 kg/m~
Bulk densiq 500-700 kg/m' Pour point 150 C
Flash point <200 C
Ignition t~ .dlulc; <400 C
Softening point120-160 C
Net calorific value 36 MJ/kg Gross calorific value 37 MJ/kg Volatile cvlll~ollc.lb 40-70 %
Particle size analysis 6.3 mm about 6 wt%
6.3-3.15mm about40 wt%
3.15-2.00 mm about 20 wt%
2.00-1.00 mm about 17 wt%
1.00-0.5 mm about 5 wt%
0.5 mm about 10 wt%

Table 6.

Normal operation withTest operation with 5% petroleum pitch5% h.ydl~,ge.l~.lion residue Cokin~ coal blend:
Water, wt% -8.0 -8.0 Ash. wt% -6.0 -6.0 Sulfur wt% 0.7S 0.86 Volatiie CO~pOII.,,.t~ (mf), wt%-19.0 -18.3 Residue: Carbon Degree of swelling -6.0 -5.0 Sulfur in binder, wt% -0 -2.7 Coking time, h 33 33 Coke l,.op~,.li~,~.
Drum .e;,(~ .cc M80 (DIN), % 83.0 81.0 Abrasion M10 (DIN) 5.6 6.0 Lump density, g/cm3 n.d. -1.05 Specific weight, g/cml n.d. -1.92 Porosity, vol% n.d. -46.0 Reactivity, km n.d. 0.18 Sulfur (mf), wt% 0.69 0.78 Ash (mf), wt% -6.8 7.0 Coke yields, % 73 -76

Claims

Cokemaking process for iron and steelmaking especially foundry coke, by mixing coal charges and about 0.5 to 10%, referred to the moisture- and ash-free coal charge, of a binder, as well as subsequent coking, in which a vacuum hydrogenation residue is used as binder, which is formed during vacuum distillation of hydrogenation, when vacuum residues or heavy oils of petroleum origin are hydrogenated with addition of an additive consisting of a porous carbonaceous material, especially a material of coal origin.
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