| Abstract | i | 
		
			| 1 | Bench Scale Research and Development | 1 | 
		
			|  | 1.1 | Flocculant Pretreatment of Catalyst Recovery Slurry | 
		
			| 1.2 | Gas Phase Reactions Study | 
		
			| 2 | Process Development Unit Operations | 13 | 
		
			|  | 2.1 | PDU Startup and Initial Operations | 
		
			| 2.2 | PDU Catalyst Recovery Design and Construction | 
		
			| 3 | Data Acquisition and Correlations | 
		
			|  | 3.1 | Process Modeling | 
		
			| 4 | Advanced Study of the Exxon Catalytic Coal Gasification Process | 24 | 
		
			|  | 4.1 | Kinetics of Gasification and Devolatilization | 
		
			| 4.2 | Catalyst Reactions with Coal and Ash | 
		
			| 4.3 | Catalyst/Char Equilibrium Studies | 
		
			| 5 | Engineering Research and Development | 35 | 
		
			|  | 5.1 | Cost Reduction and Laboratory Guidance Studies | 
		
			| 5.2 | Systems Modeling | 
		
			| 5.3 | Engineering Technology Studies |