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Process for producing liquid fuels from coal
We do regret, that, over the past four or five years, we really haven't been able to do a good job of, by using the abundantly available evidence, drawing out for you a complete and organized picture of how our domestic Coal, or, more precisely, the Carbon content of Coal, can be thoroughly and efficiently converted into hydrocarbons; that is, into anything, quite literally anything, we now allow ourselves to be extorted by the pushers of foreign OPEC petroleum for the supply of.
More precisely, we haven't been able to, in a coherent narrative, plot for you the ongoing development of those Coal and Carbon conversion technologies, as they have progressed among certain enlightened groups in the decades following World War II.
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United States Patent Application: 0090159455
Again, since elemental, molecular Hydrogen, H2, is required, in greater or lesser amounts, by some efficient processes for converting Coal into more versatile liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, as seen, for one example, in:
Hydrogen-donor Coal Liquefaction Process; 1980; Exxon Research and Engineering Company; Abstract: Improved liquid yields are obtained during the hydrogen-donor solvent liquefaction of coal ... . Government Interests: The Government of the United States of America has rights in this invention pursuant to Contract No. E(49-18)-2353 awarded by the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration. Claims: A hydrogen-donor liquefaction process for converting coal or similar carbonaceous solids into lower molecular weight liquid hydrocarbons. In processes of this type, the coal ... is contacted with molecular hydrogen and a hydrogen-donor solvent at elevated temperature and pressure in a liquefaction zone";
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Herein, we present just more evidence of two facts, which can be summarized in one statement, which we have already many times documented to be true:
Both Coal and Carbon Dioxide can be efficiently converted into Methane.
The evidence herein comes again from one of the components of that lovable titan of the international petroleum industry, ExxonMobil, New Jersey's Exxon Research and Engineering Company. And, it will seem almost dreadfully repetitive to anyone who has somehow been motivated enough to follow our reports over the past four, and then some, years.
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The United States Patent Application we enclose in this dispatch seems as good a way as any to begin reporting both on a technology for Coal liquefaction that has been established by West Virginia University and one or two of WVU's Coal technology development partners; and, on a business plan that WVU seems to have embarked upon to see that the technology is reduced to actual commercial practice.
We caution in advance, and we will remind you as we go along in coming reports, that WVU's latest suite of Coal conversion technologies represents a definitive advancement over what we have earlier reported as the "West Virginia Process" for the direct liquefaction of Coal; a technique which utilizes the Hydrogen-donor solvent known as "Tetralin", an hydrogenated version of the primary Coal, or Coke oven, oil, "Naphthalene", to effect, under rather extreme conditions of temperature and pressure, the hydrogenation and dissolution of the Carbon in the raw Coal feed.
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Note that we might be looking at a game-changer in this dispatch.
As we read the source document, there are nuances and implications inherent within it, that, even though our West Virginia Coal Association publishers don't like it when we do so, compel us to admonish the members of the Coal Country public press corps that are among our direct and primary addressees:
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