Coal Tar and its Distillation Processes IspatGuru
26/12/2018#0183;#32;Distillation of coal tar is carried out mainly to produce benzols, naphtha, creosotes, naphthalene, anthracene, carbolic and cresylic acids, pyridine and pitch. The purpose of tar distillation is to (i) dehydrate the tar in the dehydration column, (ii) remove the pitch from dehydrated tar in pitch column and (iii) separate tar oils in fractionating column.