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Last month, as available via: Grumman Aerospace Recycles CO2 | Research & Development | News; we made report of "US Patent 4,282,187 - Hydrocarbons from Air, Water and Low Cost Electrical Power", which was awarded and assigned to Grumman all the way back in 1981.
The disclosed technology is one which enables us, as Grumman puts it, to manufacture "synthetic hydrocarbons such as gasoline and/or kerosene from the synthesis of carbon dioxide and hydrogen".
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A few months ago, we made report, now available on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site, via the link: US Navy Seeks CO2 Recycling Patent; of "US Patent Application 2008/0051478A1 - Synthesis of Hydrocarbons via Catalytic Reduction of CO2".
The US Government, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, will be assigned the patent rights to that technology for converting Carbon Dioxide into liquid hydrocarbon fuels, if and when the patent is issued.
Herein, via the initial link in this dispatch, we see that the US Navy's Carbon Dioxide recycling technology, as disclosed in that application, is only an advancement on similar and related technology that had already been established, by one of that application's named inventors.
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We earlier made report, as available via: Exxon Coal to Methanol | Research & Development | News; of one process, embodied in "United States Patent 4,348,487 - Production of Methanol via Catalytic Coal Gasification; September, 1982; Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company" wherein Coal can be productively converted into the versatile liquid fuel, Methanol.
Aside from the fact that Eastman Chemical, as we have many times documented, has been doing just that on a commercial scale in Kingsport, Tennessee, for quite some time, herein, from Germany, is further exposition of the ways in which Coal can be transformed into an alcohol that can, via, for one example, ExxonMobil's "MTG"(r) technology, be further converted into Gasoline; or, be used as the basic raw material in the manufacture of a variety of commercially-important plastics.
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In multiple reports, we've thoroughly documented that both Coal and Carbon Dioxide can be converted into Methanol.
Some recent examples of such include: Exxon Coal to Methanol | Research & Development | News; "US Patent 4,348,487 - Production of Methanol via Catalytic Coal Gasification; 1982; Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company, NJ"; and, ConocoPhillips CO2 to Methanol | Research & Development | News; "US Patent Application 20030060355 - Converting CO2 to Oxygenates; 2003; Assignee (presumed): ConocoPhillips".
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We believe some extended preamble to be needed in this report.
First, though not documented herein, available literature confirms that both named inventors in the United States Patent we enclose, via the above link, were employed at the USDOE's Argonne National Laboratory, just south of Chicago, Illinois.
And, in this US Patent, with ownership of the rights assigned to the United States Government, is confirmed a fact that we have, from other sources, already documented:
Primary and carbonaceous Coal liquids can be hydrogenated, to form hydrocarbon petroleum substitute materials, through catalyzed reactions with a hydrogen-rich synthesis gas itself derived from Coal.
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