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In our report of yesterday, "CO2 to Synfuel Production Ship", we documented that, back in 1986, our US Government had issued Patent 4,568,522 to Grumman Aerospace, for the invention of a "vessel ... with means for producing and storing synthetic fuel generated from ...carbon dioxide".
Herein, in what might be a repeat of an even earlier report, we see that Grumman's invention was actually based on a CO2 recycling innovation they, and their scientists, had accomplished five years previously.
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We have several times, in the course of our reportage, made reference to the unicorn we reveal herein.
Almost fully one quarter of a century ago, our United States Government, through the Patent Office, confirmed that Carbon Dioxide could be effectively recycled into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
Carbon Dioxide can be so efficiently recycled via the technology disclosed herein, that, not only could individual vehicles be made self-sufficient in their supply of liquid fuel, but, a ship could be built which would be able supply an entire fleet with liquid hydrocarbons made out of nothing but Water and Carbon Dioxide.
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In our recent report of November 22, concerning "US Patent 4,011,153", a technology for the "Liquefaction and Desulfurization of Coal", it was disclosed that US Government scientists working in Pennsylvania had, all the way back in 1977, developed a process they summarized, simply, as a way of "desulfurizing and liquefying coal", with the end result being clean liquid hydrocarbons.
Presuming you to have read that dispatch, and without reproducing the specifics, we remind you that a key chemical agent which could, among others, be used in that process, to hydrogenate and liquefy Coal, was the compound, "Sodium Formate".
Herein, we submit evidence that such use of Sodium Formate represents a clear opportunity for the somewhat direct recycling, through multiple channels, of Carbon Dioxide in a Coal liquefaction process.
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Rights to the United States Patent we report herein are assigned to Conoco, in Connecticut. But, separate web-based sources clearly identify the named inventor as being, or as having been, at the time the patent was issued, an employee of Consolidation Coal Company, at their facility in Library, PA.
That said, we herein submit even additional evidence of two facts we have previously, from multiple sources, documented:
The still-carbonaceous residues, left by an initial and primary process of Coal conversion into hydrocarbons, can themselves be further treated to extract even more hydrocarbon values; and,
Water, in the form of Steam, can be used as the source of Hydrogen for Carbon hydrogenation.
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United States Patent Application: 0030060355
As is sometimes the case in United States Patent Applications published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, the corporate assignee of the patent rights is not identfied in the document we enclose herein.
However, other web-based resources clearly identify the two named Oklahoma inventors as being employees of ConocoPhillips - who are officially headquartered in Houston, Texas; and, who coalesced into existence, in 2002, through the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum.
Moreover, the inventors herein teamed up with a larger group of ConocoPhillips scientists to develop, and to apply for US and international patents on, an "indirect" Carbon Dioxide recycling technology which we will, in coming days, make report of.
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