Abstract: The kinetics of Shenhua coal hydroliquefaction was investigated in a batch autoclave at the initial pressure of 5 MPa using Shenhua coal as feedstock, tetrahydronaphthalene as the solvent,and the kinetics model was estabilished.The results show that in the initial phase of reaction,coal is mainly converted to preasphaltene,asphaltene and a little oil and gas.With the extend of time,the yield of preasphaltene and asphaltene reaches the maximum and the yield of oil and gas gradually increases.The proposed kinetic model is suitable to describe the hydroliquefaction process of Shenhua coal from 350 ℃ to 440 ℃, the rate constants are in the range of 0.001 8—0.041 6 min-1 and the apparent activation energies are in the range of 29.11—46.45 kJ/mol.