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A few days ago, we reported on "United States Patent 3,892,654 - Dual Temperature Coal Solvation Process"; the rights to which were assigned, in July of 1975, to both Gulf Oil's P&M Mining subsidiary, in Kansas, and the United States Government, since, as the patent specified, the "invention resulted from work performed under Contract No. 14-01-0001-496 between The Pittsburgh and Midway Coal Mining Co., a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corporation, and the Office of Coal Research in the Department of the Interior entered into pursuant to the Coal Research Act, 30 USC 661 to 668."
Herein, we see that, just months before issuance of that patent, Gulf and P&M had developed another, earlier variation on the solvent-based Coal liquefaction technology, again in service, under the very same contract, to the US Government.
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Since we are sending today, via separate dispatch, a report further documenting the US Bureau of Mines' development of Coal liquefaction technologies in the years immediately following WWII, in emulation of the extensive Coal-based liquid fuel industries established by the Axis powers at, as we have documented in earlier reports, at least seven sites in Europe and Asia; we wanted to again confirm other of our reports, which documented that the US petroleum industry, as well, recognized Coal's vast potential following WWII, and developed their own technologies to utilize Coal to supply our nation's liquid fuel needs - should they have been finally compelled, by a majority of insightful and concerned political leadership, to do so.
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We've previously documented the US Bureau of Mines efforts, in the years immediately following WWII, to emulate Germany's and Japan's wartime achievements in the liquefaction of Coal, in order to synthesize liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
Herein, via the two links and two attached documents, and excerpts taken from them, we see that the Bureau actually developed, concurrently, in addition to the "Karrick" Coal conversion process that has been more fully described, and about which we've earlier reported, two processes for the conversion of Coal into liquid fuel.
First, from the above link, we excerpt details of the US Government's invention of a solvent-based direct Coal liquefaction technology.
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United States Patent: 4640766
The, we would contend deliberately, vague title of the United States Patent we enclose herein doesn't even begin to convey the import of the technology disclosed. And, the, again we would contend deliberate, heavy use of abbreviated generic chemical formulae does little to clear things up.
Only when you get to the "Preferred Embodiments" section, do the inventors, and our United States Patent Office, take a stab at revealing the true import.
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Patent US0943627
In a dispatch immediately to follow, we report on yet another technology developed by Big Oil, as embodied in Shell Oil, and it's scientists in both The Netherlands and Texas, wherein Carbon Dioxide can be recycled, "tri-reformed", through reactions with Methane and Steam, to synthesize higher hydrocarbons.
Although the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Paul Sabatier for demonstrating that such valuable Methane can itself be synthesized from Carbon Dioxide, we demonstrate herein that we have known for even longer that, if we want Methane - whether for recycling Carbon Dioxide; or, for enhancing processes of indirect Coal conversion; or, for direct catalytic condensation; all of which process can be designed to result in the synthesis of liquid hydrocarbons; and, all as we have previously documented - then we can also manufacture Methane via the gasification of Coal.
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