PDF Occupational Exposures During Coaltar Distillation
hydrocarbons. Coaltar pitch is the residue from the distillation of coal tar (Betts, 1997). The largest source of tar and pitch is the pyrolysis or carbonization of coal. Until the end of the Second World War, coal tar was the main source of benzene, toluene, xylenes, phenol, cresols and cresylic acids, pyridine and methyl