|
Thursday - May 07, 2009 |
An excerpt: "Commercial technologies to gasify coal, to make chemicals from the synthetic natural gas that results, and to isolate and sell carbon dioxide for oil recovery without letting it reach the atmosphere represent a more sustainable economic and environmental model, Cole (Sharon Cole - Dow Louisiana Site Leader) said, and the company would license the available technologies." Dow, as we have reported, is active internationally in the conversion of coal to chemical manufacturing feed stocks. We have previously noted their efforts in Louisiana, where such enterprise is supported by Governor Bobby Jindal, and where they would be using lignite coal that is far "dirtier", and has less organic content, that high-quality WV bituminous.
|
|
|
Saturday - May 02, 2009 |
|
From the "National Center for Policy Analysis" (NCPA), headquartered in DC. An excerpt: "First developed by Germany during World War II, the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process offers America a chance to utilize its vast domestic coal supply, increase refining capacity, and produce a cost-efficient and clean fuel. The process can be used to transform natural gas, biomass or coal into liquid fuels..." |
|
Saturday - May 02, 2009 |
|
The article discusses several ways to efficiently make Carbon Monoxide out of Carbon Dioxide. Then: "To make a fuel, the carbon monoxide can be combined with hydrogen to create syngas in a well-known technology called the Fischer-Tropsch process, which has been widely used to make gasoline from coal." As we've been saying: Carbon Dioxide is, or could be, a valuable by-product of coal use. |
|
Thursday - April 30, 2009 |
|
An excerpt: "...one audacious concept is to recycle the carbon by turning it into liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Chemical plants, in this vision, could generate liquid hydrocarbons by taking hydrogen from natural gas or even water and combining it with CO2 to make fuels that would cut the demand for crude oil." We have several times already reported on this potential. There are a number of ways to go about recovering CO2 from the flue gasses of coal-fired power plants and coal-to-liquid fuel refineries - and then converting it into useful products, such as more liquid fuel. |
|
Thursday - April 30, 2009 |
|
More on the work at New York's Columbia University, printed in a United Kingdom newspaper, concerning the capture and use of CO2. An excerpt: "Lackner says that device works, but the "humidity switch" could slash the scrubber's energy use tenfold. He said: "We can do it coming out carbon positive." The team is also working on ways to dispose of the pure CO2 gas produced by each scrubber. The patent suggests the scrubber could be connected to greenhouses, where the CO2 would boost plant growth. Or the gas could be used to grow algae, for food, fertiliser or fuel. The latter could "close the carbon loop," Lackner said." |
|
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 Next > End >>
|
|
Page 366 of 396 |
