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This will be a quite lengthy dispatch. But, we believe the length to be warranted, especially since it could have been much, much longer.
Starting with the first link, above, we enclose a series of seven, sequentially-issued United States Patents, all awarded to the Mobil Oil Corporation, for advances in the technology of converting our abundant domestic Coal into the liquid transportation fuels we need.
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Patent US3671209
Following up on our most recent dispatch, concerning yet another US Patent, Number 2,243,869 - Method of Synthesizing Liquid Hydrocarbons, issued to the company M.W, Kellogg, now a part of Kellogg, Brown & Root, which confirms that Methane can be converted into Gasoline, we herein confirm that Methane can, indeed, be manufactured from Coal - and, other "stuff".
We enclose three United States Patents, all issued to Texaco, whose Coal gasification technology we've previously established.
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As we have previously reported from various sources, the "dry reforming" of Methane is a process wherein Methane is reacted with Carbon Dioxide to synthesize higher hydrocarbons. Variants of the technology have been referred to as "bi-reforming" and, "tri-reforming", such as explained best for us so far by Penn State University.
The report we submit herein, from Iran, doesn't make all of that especially clear. But, we assure you, that is what it's all about.
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In many of our posts, we have presented authoritative documentation that Methane can be produced, synthesized, variously, from both Coal and Carbon Dioxide, among other interesting things.
Most recently, we submitted "United States Patent 4,235,044" for a "Split Stream Methanation Process", awarded in 1980 to Union Carbide Corporation, detailing one such technology for making Methane from Coal.
And, we intend confirming that fact in yet another dispatch soon to follow.
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United States Patent: 4235044
Among our many reports on Coal liquefaction technology, we have consistently documented the utility of Methane as an "intermediary" and co-reactant in the synthesis of higher hydrocarbons from both Coal and Carbon Dioxide.
In this dispatch, we confirm, yet again, that such valuable Methane can be synthesized from Coal using processes of steam, or "hydro", gasification.
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