摘要:
A process for producing liquid hydrocarbonaceous products from coal utilizing two steps of solvent extraction with different solvents. In the first stage, coal is contacted, at relatively high temperature and pressure, with a heavy hydrocarbon solvent containing a mixture of hydroaromatic hydrocarbons and saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons in a hydroaromatics/aliphatics weight ratio between about 1:2 and about 2:1. The solid materials remaining after the first liquefaction step are subsequently separated from the liquefied coal and the heavy solvent and the liquefied coal from the first extraction step is recovered as a product. The solid materials recovered from the first extraction step are solvent extracted, at relatively low temperature and pressure, with a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon solvent, and the resulting liquids are also recovered as a product.