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Needle coke is a type of high-quality coke with needle-like texture and layer structure. [1] Also, it presents a turbine carbon structure under the scanning electron microscope. [2,3] Needle coke was acknowledged as an exceptional raw material to obtain carbon materials, because it has low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), high mechanical strength, easy to graphitization, and other advantages. Therefore, it is widespread used in lithium battery anode materials, high-power, ultrahigh-power graphite electrodes, and so on. [4,5] At present, residual heavy oil, catalytic cracking slurry, and high-temperature coal tar pitch are commonly used to prepare needle coke. [6][7][8] The heavy pitch component of medium-and lowtemperature coal tar has the advantages of high aromaticity, low quinoline insoluble (QI) content, and narrower molecular weight distribution. [9] So, it is an excellent raw material for the preparation of needle coke. However, the higher heteroatom content and saturation in the raw materials lead to higher thermal reaction rate in a carbonization process, which is unfavorable to prepare needle coke and the mesophase with a wide-area streamline structure. [10,11] Because the mesophase with an orderly wide-area streamlined structure is precursor for the production of high-performance green needle coke during the coke is pulled by the airflow. [12] The appropriate pretreatment methods are used to reduce the thermal reactivity of raw materials, which is essential for preparing mesophase pitch. Garcia et al. [11] reported that the