Significant accomplishment this quarter have been demonstration that: the procedures that we are using in the tubing bomb experiments yield results comparable to data published by Rindt et al. from North Dakota Energy Research Center (UNDERC,5935 ); showing that the ZAP-2 recycle solvent was a very poor donor solvent; and presentation of the automation of the size exclusion chromatograph-gas chromatograph at the Fall American Chemical Society meeting. We also present data on a mixing study conducted with ZAP-2 recycle solvent and ZAP-2 lignite. Even though the yields are poor, the same yields within experimental error are obtained at 400, 600 and 700 cpm. These data substantiate data published by Gallakota and guin, that shakers speeds equal to or greater than 400 cpm are sufficient and necessary to obtain good mixing. We also present data with anthracene oil and ZAP-2 lignite in which high yields are obtained. The high yields with anthracene oil and ZAP-2 lignite as compared to the low yields with ZAP-2 recycle solvent indicate that the ZAP-2 recycle solvent supplied by UNDERC was in exceeding poor hydrogen donor. In this quarterly, data for Big Brown-2 lignite with anthracene oil (A04) that are comparable to data published by Rindt et al. are presented. Data presented in this quarterly also seem to suggest that temperature greater than 400 C and pressures of 27 to 30 MPa are needed to obtain good distillable yields. Other accomplishments for the year have been the installation and commissioning of the Finnigan Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer Detector, the development of a Reactor and Kinetic Model for the Up Flow Tubular Reactor at UNDERC by using data generated by that unit. 4 refs., 7 figs., 14 tabs.