NOVELTY - Generating a methane-enriched raw product gas stream (50) and a vanadium product stream (99), comprises: (a) preparing a catalyzed carbonaceous feedstock; (b) introducing feedstock into a hydromethanation reactor; (c) reacting feedstock in reactor; (d) withdrawing a stream of raw product gas; (e) withdrawing a stream of solid by-product char; (f) treating the product; (g) separating aqueous stream into a bleed stream and a catalyst recycle stream; (h) recycling a portion of catalyst recycle stream; (i) treating bleed stream; and (j) contacting vanadium-enriched stream with an ammonia stream.    USE - The process is useful for generating the methane-enriched raw product gas stream and the vanadium product steam.    ADVANTAGE - The process provides methane-enriched raw product gas stream and the vanadium product steam with high purity and high yield. The process is simple and inexpensive.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Process for generating a methane-enriched raw product gas stream (50) and a vanadium product stream (99) from a non gaseous vanadium-containing carbonaceous material (10), comprises: (a) preparing a catalyzed carbonaceous feedstock from the vanadium-containing carbonaceous material and an alkali metal hydromethanation catalyst, where the alkali metal hydromethanation catalyst comprises a recycle catalyst (57) and a makeup catalyst (58); (b) introducing the catalyzed carbonaceous feedstock into a hydromethanation reactor; (c) reacting the catalyzed carbonaceous feedstock in the hydromethanation reactor in the presence of carbon monoxide, hydrogen and steam to produce a methane enriched raw gas and a solid by-product char; (d) withdrawing a stream of the methane-enriched raw product gas from the hydromethanation reactor as the methane-enriched raw product gas stream, where the methane-enriched raw product gas stream comprises methane, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, steam and heat energy; (e) withdrawing a stream of the solid by-product char from the hydromethanation reactor, where the withdrawn solid by-product char comprises carbon and an inorganic ash containing an alkali metal content and a vanadium content; (f) treating the withdrawn solid by-product char to generate (1) an alkali metal and vanadium-depleted char stream, and (2) an aqueous alkali metal and vanadium-enriched stream comprising one or more water-soluble alkali metal compounds and one or more water-soluble vanadium compounds, where the aqueous stream comprises at least a predominant portion of the alkali metal content and at least a predominant portion of the vanadium content of the withdrawn solid by-product char; (g) separating the aqueous stream into a bleed stream and a catalyst recycle stream, where the bleed stream comprises a bleed vanadium content; (h) recycling at least a portion of the catalyst recycle stream for use as the recycle catalyst; (i) treating the bleed stream to generate a vanadium-enriched stream and a vanadium-depleted stream, where the vanadium-enriched stream comprises at least a predominant portion of the bleed vanadium content; (j) contacting the vanadium-enriched stream with an ammonia stream to generate an ammonium vanadate; and (k) recovering at least a predominant portion of the ammonium vanadate generated in the step (j) as the vanadium product stream.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The figure shows the schematical representation of the process for generating the methane enriched raw product gas stream and the vanadium product stream from the non gaseous vanadium containing carbonaceous material.    Methane enriched raw product gas stream (50)    Vanadium product stream (99)    Non-gaseous vanadium-containing carbonaceous material (10)    Recycle catalyst stream (57)    Makeup catalyst stream. (58)