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We have earlier, in multiple reports, documented for you the commercial operation of a Coal conversion and hydrogenation facility in Kingsport, TN, by the Eastman Chemicals division of Eastman Kodak; wherein they are converting Coal into hydrocarbons, including and especially the quite-valuable Methanol, through the initial production of synthesis gas.
Herein, via the enclosed accurately-, but less than completely-, labeled United States Patent, we see that Eastman knows how to do exactly the same thing with Carbon Dioxide.
To be precise, Eastman explains, in their full Disclosure, how to create a hydrocarbon synthesis gas, which can be then be catalytically condensed, one supposes, into Methanol, out of Carbon Dioxide, by reacting that gas with, as in a way similar to, but somewhat different from, Penn State University's "tri-reforming" technology, Methane.
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We earlier documented the development, by the USDOE, and/or it's precedent agencies, of Coal gasification technology, wherein Coal could be reacted with Steam, which provides the needed Hydrogen to convert Carbon into hydrocarbons, in our one post, for instance, among others, of July 26: "USDOE Hydrogasifies Coal, Recycles Carbon".
The US Patent, Number 3988123, we detailed in that report was issued in October of 1976; and, we see herein, via the enclosed document, that our US Government had been at work on such Coal hydrogenation technology for even longer.
And, we are compelled to assert, they have been at such work for much, much longer.
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We have, in the course of our reportage concerning Coal conversion and Carbon Dioxide recycling technologies, made note of several facts about the known processes for turning those two raw materials into valuable hydrocarbons.
One fact is that some primary processes for transforming either or both of them into other products results in the formation, the deposition on catalyst surfaces, of carbon, or carbonaceous, residues.
The same is true, by the way, of long-practiced techniques for the refining of crude petroleum, and the oil industry has developed efficient technologies for the further conversion of "resids" or petroleum refinery "coke" - essentially carbon deposits - into liquid hydrocarbons.
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We remind you of our recent post to the West Virginia Coal Association, concerning: "Development of an Improved Sabatier Reactor; ASME Conference on Environmental Systems", presented by employees of the Hamilton Standard Division of United Technologies Corporation.
In that paper, the judgement of the 1912 Nobel Committee, in the award of their Prize in Chemistry to Paul Sabatier, was directly validated; as the US Government contractors who authored that paper confirmed that "carbon dioxide and hydrogen" could be reacted "in the presence of a catalyst ... to form water, methane and heat".
In other previous reports, we have documented how it has been known, since the late 1800's, that Methane could as well be synthesized, as one of several products, via the Steam gasification of Coal.
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We've earlier documented, from other sources, that Coal can be efficiently converted into the valuable liquid hydrocarbon fuel, Methanol.
But, we wanted to confirm it, yet again - just in case anyone should have any lingering doubts about that fact; and, since we are preparing additional reports documenting that Methanol, once produced from Coal, and, as you will see below, some other interesting things, can then be converted directly into Gasoline, in a process that itself has some intriguing implications for sustainability and carbon recycling.
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