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We present, at the understood risk of irritating repetitiveness, yet another US-patented technology developed by Mobil Oil, prior to their, perhaps unholy, alliance with Exxon, for the refining of hydrocarbon liquids synthesized, via their advanced Fischer-Tropsch technology, from Coal.
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As we have reported several times to be feasible, a properly-designed Coal conversion facility can be made to "co-generate" multiple products, thereby maximizing Coal's already-great utility and versatility, and reducing the effective cost of each product generated.
Electricity, synthetic natural gas and liquid fuels can all be made, concurrently or consecutively, from Coal; with the market value of each subsidizing the production cost of the others.
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Methane is a substance of great, though as yet not-fully appreciated, utility. As we have reported, it can be converted directly into liquid fuels; or, it can be added to processes of indirect Coal liquefaction to enhance the production of liquid fuels; or, it can, in bi-reforming and tri-reforming processes, be reacted with Carbon Dioxide to recycle that supposed pollutant and synthesize higher, valuable, hydrocarbons.
Paul Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize early in the last century for demonstrating that Methane could be synthesized from Carbon Dioxide.
At the same time, as we record herein, our United States Government acknowledged that Methane could also be made via the steam gasification of Coal.
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We have previously cited the Coal-to-Liquid conversion accomplishments of Mobil Oil Corporation scientist Frank Derbyshire, who, subsequent to his career at Mobil, continued his work at, and became Director of, the University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Energy Research.
We have also frequently made reference to ExxonMobil's MTG(r), methanol-to-gasoline, technology, always asserting that ExxonMobil posited the Methanol to be made from Coal.
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United States Patent Application: 0070042479
We have previously reported on the Carbon conversion technical expertise of Southern Illinois University, at Carbondale, Illinois, especially in regards to one of their chief researchers there, Bakul Dave (pronounced "Davy" or "Da-vee", according to various sources).
Herein, we disclose that they have applied, as have others we've discovered and documented for you, for a United States Patent on the conversion, the recycling, of Carbon Dioxide into Methanol.
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