Abstract: A novel pitch material made from coal tar pitch has:a) mesophase content of .ltoreq.2%,b) content of toluene-insolubles (.beta.-resin) between 58 and 75%,c) content of quinoline-insolubles of <2%,d) softening point in the 200.degree. to 300.degree. C. range, according to the Kramer-Sarnow (KS) measurement,e) content of volatile matter .ltoreq.20% andf) ash content of .ltoreq.0.06%.The pitch material of high coke yield (80 to beyond 90%) is suitable for the manufacture of molded carbonaceous shapes of high quality and of pitch coke. A further application would be as impregnation agent or bind. The method of making new pitch uses hot filtration in the presence of a filtration and followed by thin-film evaporation.

Abstract: A process for separating hydrocarbons from waste water, in particular aromatic hydrocarbons, by means of an absorbing filtering layer. The hydrocarbons dissolved and non-dissolved in the waste water are separated in a single stage. The waste water is supplied to a metallic slotted multiple tube filter, and a hydrocarbon-containing material, preferably coking duff, is used as an adsorbing filtering layer. Its grain size distribution in the particle size range between 0.05-0.2 mm has a mass proportion of at least 25% by weight, with a total surface area of at least 1500 cm.sup.2 /g. The filtering material can be made to float on the filtering elements or added to the waste water.

Abstract: Metal candle-type gap filters are used to remove particles from a hot gas stream containing sulfur oxides so that, in the filter cake which is built up upon the candle filters, the sorption reaction can continue as the hot gas stream passes through the filter.

Abstract: An apparatus for filtering solids suspended in a slurry has a housing divided by a horizontal partition into a lower filtrand chamber and an upper filtrate compartment, the partition serving as a vibratile suspension for a multiplicity of filter tubes depending therefrom into the filtrand compartment. An impactor disposed above the housing top has a vertical plunger, coupled with the partition, which is surrounded by or forms a discharge duct with a lower end closely overlying the bottom of a depression formed in the partition; this duct has an outlet opening above the housing top through which effluent present in the filtrate compartment is expelled by the pressure of incoming slurry in a working phase and by the pressure of a scavenger gas such as air in a purging phase.

Abstract: Synthetic plastic materials for the manufacture of extrusion, injection and press forms are described, which are prepared from elastomers as well as mixed- and copolymers thereof with thermoplastic properties and liquification products from extractive coal hydrogenation which are residues with a softening point between 50.degree. and 150.degree. C. Polar, aromatic or cyclic groups in the elastomer component increase the compatibility of the coal liquification residue with the elastomer and improve the mechanical properties of the products.

Abstract: Synthetic form masses are described which are derived from thermoplastic polyolefins as well as mixed and copolymerisates thereof and a coal liquification product. The coat liquification product is a residue which precipitates out during extractive hydrogenation and has a softening point between 70.degree. and 200.degree. C. The thermoplastic polyolefin contains a component of polar, aromatic or cyclic monomers, which improve the compatibility of the components in the mixture. The form masses from this mixture, which may include filler material, have excellent tear resistance properties.

Abstract: A composition for sound absorbent panels, which may be utilized in construction elements, comprises a mixture of 70 to 97 weight percent of carbon-contained material and a binder of synthetic plastic material. The carbon-contained material used in the composition contains 50-60% of pure carbon and 40-50% of inorganic constituents and may be obtained from residues of coal hydrogenation or pitch filtration. The material is treated at an elevated temperature and under pressure before the binder is added thereto and then the obtained compound is formed into a panel.

Abstract: A method of and an adhesive cartridge for securing an anchor or the like in a bore hole or the like. The cartridge comprises an outer tube and an inner tube within this outer tube. Between the inner and outer tube is a mass of synthetic-resin material and filler. The inner tube is filled with a hardener capable of reacting with the synthetic-resin to form a mass capable of holding the rock anchor or the like in the borehole. At least the outer tube is made of an elastomeric polymer with which is mixed a filler that renders the outer tube completely opaque. The inner tube may also be extruded simultaneously with the outer tube of the same synthetic-resin material. It is also possible otherwise to partition the interiors of the outer tube, or to provide the one component in the outer tube directly in contact with the other component but unmixed therewith.

Abstract: Coal tar pitch is liquified at temperature of from about 135.degree. C. to 280.degree. C. The liquid coal tar pitch is filtered through a sieve with apertures from about 100 to 220 .mu.m and with a closed surface area of at least 75 percent of the total sieve surface under pressures of from about 2 to 10 bar until a filter cake of a height of from about 40 to 80 mm forms above the sieve for separating ash, soot and quinoline insoluble particles from the liquid. Then the filtrate obtained is subjected to a coking process.The needle cokes resulting in accordance with the invention provide excellent materials for the production of graphite electrodes.

Abstract: The filter cake resulting from the filtration of tar, pitch, coal extract or coal oil with the help of a filter aid, is dried by blowing an inert gas through it. Thereafter it is comminuted to a particle size of about 0.5 mm and these particles are heated in a fluidized bed at the rate of 1000.degree. C./min to a temperature of 500.degree.-1200.degree. C. There is obtained a size mix of swelled particles from which a fraction having a size of about 0.05-0.3 mm is segregated and recirculated to the filter as a filter aid. Particles having a size above or below the segregated fraction are thermally decomposed, as are gaseous and liquid products which are liberted during the thermal treatment in the fluidized bed.

Abstract: Manufacture of isotropic coke by first selecting as feed material tar from low temperature carbonization with a hydrogen content above 5.5%, a carbon content less than 88% and a softening point above 60.degree. C., filtering the tar to remove solid particles, and heating the filtrate to a temperature between about 900.degree. C. and 1300.degree. C. to form an isotropic coke.

Abstract: An alluvial filter candle apparatus has a plurality of filtering elements each of which has a return casing surrounding a riser lower end provided with a filtrate inlet opening and preventing backflow of the filtrate through the filter cake. The volume of the return casing corresponds to that of the riser. The risers are formed as mounting rods which mount candle-like filtering bodies of the filtering elements to a partition subdividing a filter housing into a filtrate chamber and a filtrant chamber. The partition sealingly abuts against and is movable relative to the filter casing. An arrangement is provided for forcedly displacing the partition together with the filtering element so as to separate the filter cake from the latter. A method of cleaning the filtering apparatus is also provided.

Abstract: A membrane having a preselected pore type which is suited for separating processes comprising a shaped body formed by heating a mixture of finely ground carbonaceous material with a binder composed of about 5 to 20% by weight natural or synthetic elastomer or a mixture of both and of about 1 to 20% by weight of thermoplastic material to about 400.degree. to 1400.degree. C. in an inert atmosphere at a rate of temperature increase between 0.1.degree. and 10.degree. C./min. The membranes are useful for a wide range of selective chemical and physical separation operations of different materials.

Abstract: Self-curing or curable materials are obtained from the distillation residues of coal hydrogenation by condensing a residue of this type having a softening point of 30.degree. to 54.degree. C. in a first stage with a mono- or dihydroxybenzene and/or a methylhydroxybenzene and/or an ethylene substituted benzene. These reactants are used at a ratio of residue to benzene derivative between 1:1 and 2:1 and the reaction is carried out in the presence of acid at a pH of 1 to 2 and at a temperature of 90.degree. to 100.degree. C. In a second stage the thus obtained reaction product is then further reacted at about the same temperature with an aldehyde. As a result a novolak-type resin is obtained. The invention permits the making of inexpensive self-curing or curable materials with properties similar to those of phenolic acids. Besides, the invention also provides an outlet for the high boiling residue of the extractive coal hydrogenation which otherwise had little use.

Abstract: A process is provided for purifying filter-clogging coal tar residue of the type obtained by low-temperature carbonization of coal. Such coal tar residues include viscous organic coal tar constituents, particulate solid impurities and liquid water. Applicants' process includes the step of heating coal at 450.degree.-700.degree. C. at least substantially in the absence of air to thereby decompose the coal to products including coal tar, the coal tar being of the type containing liquid water, particulate solid impurities, and viscous organic coal tar constituents including light oils, the light oils incidentally combining with the liquid water to produce a filter-clogging emulsion.

Abstract: Continuous production of coke by pyrolysis of a hydrocarbon mixture containing petroleum tar, coal tar pitch or pyrolysis tars in which the hyrocarbon mixture and recycled condensate is heated in a preheater at a rate to increase the mesophase content of the mixture up to 30 to 60%; the preheated mixture is then heated in a coking zone at a rate to form a raw coke having a mesophase content of 70 to 100%; continuously removing the raw coke from the coking zone and heating it in a calciner. The coke produced is more uniform and the process more efficient.

Abstract: A sealing, packing, caulking and protective shielding composition comprising a mixture of at least one synthetic thermoplastic compound to which may be added at least one elastomer having thermoplastic properties with a carbonaceous material obtained by the liquefaction of coal which material has a boiling point above 350.degree. C. at atmospheric pressure. The composition is useful, particularly for sealing and protective purposes in the building and installation industries, for instance in the form of foils for water-proofing various articles, as sealing compounds for pipes and as protective coating for containers, pipes, electric cables and so on.

Abstract: Coal-containing shaped bodies are made by intimately mixing particulate coal with 10 to 30 percent by weight of a polymer. The mixture is shaped by subjecting it to a pressure between about 295 and 3430 newtons per square centimeter. Shaping takes place within a temperature range of 100.degree. to 250.degree. C. The shaped bodies have high compressive and bending strengths and can be precisely dimensioned.

Abstract: A process is provided for the production of an aciculate textured coke from pitch comprising the steps of filtering at least two different bituminous coal tar pitches having differing softening points at an elevated temperature to form a mixture of the filtrate having a viscosity of 50-200 centipoise at 250.degree.-260.degree. C. and producing an aciculate textured coke by coking said mixture.

Abstract: A carbonaceous adsorbent in the form of a shaped body which has been heated to about 400 to 1400.degree. C in an inert atmosphere is composed essentially of a mixture of finely divided carbonaceous material of a grain size below 50 and up to below 100 microns with a binder composed of about 1 to 20% by weight of a natural or synthetic elastomer and about 1 to 15% by weight of a thermoplastic material. The adsorbent is made by subjecting the mixture to a shaping step followed by heating to a temperature of about 400.degree. to 1400.degree. C in an inert atmosphere which step may be followed by an activation of the carbonaceous material.