Abstract: Described is a catalyst used for hydrogen treatment of coal tar characterized in that about 10 to 30 weight percent of Mo oxides as first catalyst component and about 1 to 6 weight percent of Ni and/or Co as second catalyst component, both relates to the total catalyst weight, are supported on a porous inorganic substrate consisting essentially of alumina or silica alumina, and in that the mean pore size is about 8 to 18 nm, the pore size distribution is such that______________________________________ pore size nm volume ratio cc/g ______________________________________ 3.5-5 Less than 0.1 5-8 Less than 0.3 8-18 0.2-0.2 18-30 Less than 0.2 over 30 Less than 0.1 ______________________________________and the total pore surface is higher than about 100 m.sup.2 /g.

Abstract: Described is the method of producing the super needle coke from graphite electrodes, wherein the starting material derived from coal tar or the starting material derived from coal tar and containing less than 0.1 weight percent of the dry sludges or quinoline insolubles is subjected to hydrogenation in the present of hydrogenation catalyst to give the hydrogenated oil which is further subjected to thermal cracking under the controlled condition and non-volatile components contained in thermally cracked oil are removed to give the starting coking material from the distillate these of which is subjected to delayed coking.The thermal cracking conditions are selected from the conditions in which the pressure range is up to 3.9 MPa (40 kg/cm.sup.2 G.). The temperature is 470.degree. to 520.degree. C. and the cold residence time is to to 350 seconds, while the coking conditions are selected from the conditions in which the temperature ranged is over 450.degree. to 465.degree. C. and the pressure range is over 0.

Abstract: In the delayed coking of a coking feedstock wherein the feedstock is continuously heated in a coking heater and introduced into a coke drum, the heater is operated to provide a coke drum temperature of from 415.degree. to 455.degree. C., and, after filling of the drum to the desired level, feedstock introduction is discontinued and the coke drum contents are heated at a temperature of 450.degree. C. to 500.degree. C., and which heating temperature is at least 10.degree. C. greater than the coking temperature, by passing a non-coking vapor through the contents of the drum to reduce the volatile combustible matter content to a value of 4% to 10% by weight and thereby reduce the CTE of the formed coke. The process is applicable to the production of needle coke from various kinds of feedstocks, in particular from a petroleum feedstock wherein the feedstock is initially treated by thermal soaking in the presence of sulfur, followed by thermal cracking to increase the aromaticity.

Abstract: A high crystalline coke can be prepared by heat-soaking a petroleum feedstock in the presence of added dissolved sulfur, heating to effect controlled thermal cracking thereof, separating non-crystalline substances as pitch, recovering a heavy cokable residue from the pitch free feed, and subjecting the residue to delayed coking.

Abstract: A high-crystalline petroleum coke is produced from low-sulfur petroleum feedstock such as virgin crude oil, distillation residuum and cracked residium by subjecting the feedstock to preheat treatment under specific conditions to effect cracking and soaking thereof, subjecting the preheat-treated feedstock to flash distillation to remove non-crystalline substances contained therein as pitch and to recover distillate, fractionating the distillate to provide a heavy residue and subjecting the heavy residue to a delayed coking under specific conditions to produce the desired coke which has a coefficient of thermal expansion of less than 1.0 .times. 10.sup.-6 /.degree. C over 100.degree.-400.degree. C.

Abstract: A petroleum coke of unusually high-crystalline texture and of high purity is produced from a low-sulfur petroleum material by a process including a preheat-treating step for removing non-crystalline substances contained in the material as pitch or coke and a coking step wherein a heavy oil derived from the preceding step is coked in a coking crystallizer in such a manner that pitch-like heavy oil downwardly flows and is progressively accumulated and coked therein while gaseous light hydrocarbons are discharged at the upper part of crystallizer whereby the coking is conducted with a high growth and high orientation of coke crystals formed.

Abstract: Any kind of virgin, low-sulfur crude oil is directly treated in a two-stage delayed coking process for yielding non-crystalline coke in the first stage and high-crystalline coke in the second stage, which process comprises preheating the crude oil in a tube heater to 460.degree. - 520.degree.C under 5-20 kg/cm.sup.2 G, maintaining the oil therein at that temperature for 30 - 500 seconds to allow the oil to be heat-soaked, subjecting the oil to first delayed coking under relatively mild conditions and subjecting the uncoked heavy residual oil to second delayed coking under relatively severe conditions.