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Energy Citations Database (ECD) - - Document #6609731
Among many of our other reports on Consolidation Coal, Consol, and their development of Coal liquefaction technologies, we recently documented a presentation on their "Synthetic Fuels Process" which they had delivered to the "8th World Petroleum Congress" held in 1971, in Moscow.
As we have also earlier reported, Consol's research into CoalTL evolved, and they developed technologies for the use of Zinc Chloride, or Zinc Halide, in the liquefaction of Coal; technology later patented, again as we have documented, and as far as we know unused, by their new parent company, Continental Oil.
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United States Patent: 3984530
The title, as below, of this US Patent, more than 33 years old, is a little misleading.
And, from our perspective, the point of the whole thing is ridiculous, and highlights how practical solutions to our critical needs for conventional, and still versatile, forms of energy have been shunted aside by what we must presume to be political agendas.
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We have, in multiple submissions, documented the "Tri-reforming" technology espoused by Chunsan Song, and others, at Penn State University, wherein Carbon Dioxide is reacted, recycled, with Methane to synthesize higher hydrocarbons suitable for refining into liquid fuels.
We have also documented that, not only can the Methane needed for reforming CO2 be manufactured via the steam-, or hydro-, gasification of Coal, it can also, as in the Sabatier process, be itself synthesized from Carbon Dioxide.
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We earlier transmitted documentation of a US Patent, now held by Conoco, though developed by Consol Coal scientists, for the economic recovery of Zinc Halide catalysts used, we asserted, in converting Coal into liquid petroleum raw materials.
The inventor was named as Everett Gorin, and, although his state of residence in that US Patent was listed as California, we wanted to further document that he is, or was, in fact, a Coal scientist who spent at least some of his career at Consol's Library, PA, Coal research and development facility.
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We remind you of an earlier dispatch, posted February 3, 2010, on the West Virginia Coal Association's R&D Blog as "Conoco Patents Consol CoalTL Process"
As we have been reporting, Consol researchers were, separately, near the end of the FMC COED project, which was funded by the US Government, working on their own coal liquefaction technology, the Zinc Chloride, or Zinc Halide, Coal Liquefaction Process, also with US Government support, under USDOE Contract EX-76-C-01-1743.
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