Abstract: In a method for obtaining anthracene and carbazole and their sequential products from the anthracene oil resulting during coal tar distillation or its purification products, anthracene oil or the purification product crude anthracene is converted into a melt without adding solvent, the melt is cooled under the crystallization point of carbazole and anthracene, the crystal product obtained is separated from the liquid phase, and the crystal product is distilled to obtain pure anthracene and pure carbazole.

Abstract: Crude phenol and also individual phenol fractions from tars or the hydrogenation of coal are purified from contaminating organic bases and sulfur compounds by treating the phenols with phthalic acid anhydride and optionally a quinone and distillation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the mass separation of a liquid mixture through fractional crystallization, wherein the crystal layer is crystallized on the indirectly cooled wall of the crystallization zone. The mass transfer occurs in thin boundary layers which are produced by rising gas bubbles which glide as closely as possible along the heat-dissipating surfaces. The method is well suited for products which form only a soft crystal layer with a rough surface. It is carried out in a vertical pipe heat exchanger into the pipes of which (6) there extend into the lower part thereof gas-inlet pipes (7) which are mounted in the middle and are secured with centering pins (8). The maximum inside diameter of the pipes is dependent upon the optimum thickness of the crystal layer and of the concentration of the crystallizable component in the feedstock.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of molded carbon bodies directly from high-boiling aromatic hydrocarbon fractions derived from coal or mineral oil, without additional binding agents and without using high pressures, is disclosed. Molds are filled with the starting material, distillation residues from the working-up of coal tar or pyrolysis products, these residues having a softening point (KS) in excess of 40.degree. C. and a quinoline-insoluble content (QI)<1.0%, and being in the liquid state, or in the solid state, and are heated, in the first step up to 550.degree. C., the residues being converted into "green" coke. In the second step, the coke is heated up to at least 800.degree. C. at a heating rate, depending on the diameter d (m), of 1.2.times.1/d.sup.2 K/day. The molded bodies can be impregnated and graphitized. They are distinguished by high electrical conductivity, low thermal expansion, and high strength in the axial direction.