Mild hydrotreatment of low temperature coal tar distillate: Product composition.

Highlights: [•] Product composition is seriously influenced by thermodynamics equilibrium shift. [•] Cycloalkanes and phenyl cycloalkanes are the primary hydrogenated product. [•] Biaromatics are rarely transfomed into monoaromatics unless at low LHSV. [•] The incomplete hydrogenation is related to the methyl substituted on aromatic ring. [•] A reaction scheme of aromatics is proposed based on the composition of product. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]