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Yesterday we sent you a report detailing: "United States Patent 3,442,619 - Production of Hydrogen via the Steam-Iron Process", dated May of 1969 and assigned to Pittsburgh's Consolidation Coal Company.
In it, Consol disclosed what they described as "An improved process for making hydrogen by the steam-iron reaction" which they related "to the production of hydrogen and steam-hydrogen mixtures for use in synthesis processes".
The invention is, in fact, a method to economically obtain Hydrogen for the further hydrogenation of carbonaceous liquids and gases derived from Coal, so that direct replacements for hydrocarbon fuels could be efficiently synthesized.
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As you should, from our posts, by now know, supplemental Hydrogen, from one source or another, is required in processes intended to efficiently and thoroughly convert Coal into gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons.
You should also now be aware that our local Consolidation Coal Company, prior to their unfortunate assimilation by Continental Oil, devoted considerable productive effort, throughout the 1960's and 1970's, into developing practical Coal conversion technologies.
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As you should, from our posts, by now know, supplemental Hydrogen, from one source or another, is required in processes intended to efficiently and thoroughly convert Coal into gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons.
You should also now be aware that our local Consolidation Coal Company, prior to their unfortunate assimilation by Continental Oil, devoted considerable productive effort, throughout the 1960's and 1970's, into developing practical Coal conversion technologies.
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We've previously reported on the Coal hydrogenation and conversion plant operated by the old Union Carbide Corporation, prior to their assimilation by Dow Chemical, in South Charleston, West Virginia.
As we've documented, several developments in Coal conversion technology arose from that enterprise, and we herein submit another of them.
We think, based on our continuing research, that there might now be better and less-expensive ways to go about adding Hydrogen to Coal extracts, relative to the process explained herein by Union Carbide; as we will, in future reports concerning Consolidation Coal Company, document.
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We continue our roughly chronological documentation of Esso/Exxon's development of Coal liquefaction technologies, with this submission, from 1974.
In it, Exxon discloses, and our United States Government, as embodied in the Patent Office, affirms, that Coal can be converted into liquid hydrocarbons by using a solvent and certain compounds needed for hydrogenation, all of which are derived from Coal itself.
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