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United States Patent: 4180456
In reporting the Coal conversion technology revealed by the United States patent enclosed herein, we must first remind you of the old Union Carbide Corporation's development and operation of a Coal liquefaction factory, as we documented in a number of our earlier reports, near Charleston, WV.
More information on Carbide's WV Coal conversion activities can be found in the West Virginia State Archives, Division of Culture and History's "Union Carbide Collection", as accessible via the following link:
Union Carbide Corporation Collection
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All the way back in 1948, the then Standard Oil of New Jersey acknowledged the US Bureau of Mines development, by their scientist Lewis Karrick, whose innovations in Coal conversion technology we have documented for you, of the Low Temperature Carbonization, "LTC", technology for Coal conversion, by hijacking it via the enclosed United States Patent, available through the above link and attached document.
Note that the patent, although awarded in 1954, was applied for in 1948; not long after everyone interested in the oil business, subsequent to WWII, should have become well-aware of Germany's and Japan's successes in fueling vast armies with liquid fuels made from a wide range of Coals.
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Herein, via a report of research from Ireland, we confirm and support our earlier reports of developments, accomplished by Penn State University, and others, whereby Carbon Dioxide can be reacted with Methane, which can itself be synthesized, by Sabatier technology, from Carbon Dioxide; or, by hydro-, or steam-, gasification technology, from Coal; to synthesize higher hydrocarbons of utility and value.
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It's beginning to seem as if, at one time, anyone who was anyone in the community of United States Chemical and Petroleum companies knew how to convert Coal into liquids suitable for refining into fuels and organic chemicals of commercial utility.
Herein, in their United States Patent on Coal liquefaction technology, the old Allied Chemical Company, which became a part of Honeywell in 1999, if you recall our previous dispatches about Honeywell's Coal conversion achievements in concert with their UOP - United Oil Products - Division, presents an interesting, even intriguing, take on Coal conversion processes.
As you will see, they utilize products easily derived from, especially high Sulfur, Coal as agents of dissolution in their liquefaction technique.
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United States Patent: 7332147
We have reported on multiple technologies for the productive and profitable use of Carbon Dioxide, some of them entailing it's use to synthesize higher hydrocarbon, including liquid fuels, and even as a supplement to some primary processes of indirect Coal-to-Liquid conversion.
The enclosed technology, recently patented in the United States, as documented herein, seems to be a version of that latter use for Carbon Dioxide; or, rather, a refinement of that use; whereby, as we have earlier documented from other sources to be feasible and practical, steam can be employed both as an agent of hydrogenation, and, as a co-reactant that helps to prevent carbon deposition on, and thereby extends the life of, the catalyst used for reforming Carbon Dioxide with simple hydrocarbons, such as Methane, to synthesize higher hydrocarbons of greater value and utility.
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