The invention relates to the field of
coal chemical industry, and discloses a method for preparing hard
asphalt by
solvent extraction of
coal tar. The method comprises the following steps: mixing a first
solvent with
coal tar, heating and stirring, standing for a period of time, separating a first extract liquor on the upper layer, adding the first
solvent into the
raffinate again, heating, stirring, standing and circularly extracting to obtain a first
raffinate, wherein the first solvent is selected from
methanol or
ethanol; and mixing a second solvent with the first
raffinate, heating, stirring, standing, and separating an upper-layer second extract, the raffinate being the hard
asphalt component, and the second solvent being selected from
toluene or
xylene. According to the method, high-quality hard
asphalt is obtained by extracting
coal tar step by step through two solvents, the
softening point of the high-quality hard asphalt is high, and the content of
toluene insoluble substances and
quinoline insoluble substances is relatively high; the selected solvent is low in
toxicity, low in
boiling point and good in extraction effect, the extraction process is simple, the extraction temperature is low, and the solvent can be recycled; the method has the advantages of low
energy consumption, less investment, stable quality of the hard asphalt product and less
discharge of three wastes.