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Patent US3763205
Yesterday, we sent you information concerning the invention of a process for making hydrocarbon synthesis gas from Coal, "United States Patent 2,699,384 - Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen from Carbonaceous Solids", which was developed by West Virginia scientists working for E.I. DuPont.
Herein, we see that DuPont had assigned another of it's West Virginia scientists to develop a method wherein Carbon Dioxide could be profitably recycled, in a related process for the production of a synthesis gas designed specifically for catalytic condensation into Methanol.
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United States Patent: 3892654
We have been, and will be further, reporting on the development of Coal liquefaction technologies by Pittsburgh's former Gulf Oil Corporation - now a part of Chevron, who, again as we have documented, and will further document, themselves, prior to and following their assimilation of Gulf, developed Coal conversion technologies of their own.
And, we have documented that the US Government funded some of the Coal liquefaction development undertaken by Gulf, and Gulf's Pittsburg(KS) and Midway, P&M, Coal Mining subsidiary.
Further, we have reported on the US Government's development, through various contractors and at various sites around the nation, including at the military's Fort Lewis, Washington, base, of the Solvent Refined Coal, or "SRC", coal conversion technology, wherein both liquid hydrocarbon and cleaner-burning solid fuels can be generated from Coal.
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We have reported several times on the Coal liquefaction plant operated for a time, long ago now, by the old Union Carbide Corporation, now a part of Dow Chemical, in South Charleston, West Virginia.
We have also documented that many companies, some with US Government support, have devoted effort to the successful development of technologies for upgrading Coal liquids, once produced, to make them more suitable as direct replacements for petroleum-derived fuels.
Herein, we see that Union Carbide, as well, in West Virginia, also addressed the issue of refining and upgrading liquid products derived from Coal.
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United States Patent: 3755137
Last Thursday, we made report of a Coal liquefaction technology co-owned by the US Government, labeled as the "H-Coal Process: Slurry Oil System", which was developed with government funding by the company, "HRI", Hydrocarbon Research, Inc.
As we indicated in that report, HRI, though somewhat anonymous, are well-represented in the Coal liquefaction literature. And, herein we see that they went on, subsequent to their work for our government, to refine and improve their technologies for Coal liquefaction.
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The phrasing and nomenclature used by this Big Oil inventor is obtuse; so obviously clouded that the choice of arcane terminology had to have been deliberate.
We'll attempt to clear it up a bit following the excerpts. But, keep in mind that Methane is one of the two "hydrocarbyl compounds" the inventor eventually gets around to specifying by name; and, that Carbon Dioxide is a perfectly acceptable "source of oxygen" in the reaction with those hyrocarbyls that leads to "a synthesis gas comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide" which "can be used to prepare methanol (and) higher molecular weight alcohols ... as well as higher molecular weight hydrocarbons", as you will see.
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