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http://www.nrcce.wvu.edu/conferences/2004/China/presentations/Fletcher_Sun.pdf
We've made several reports over the years concerning the intriguing partnership that has evolved between West Virginia University and China, relative to China's plans for the development of an industry founded on the conversion of Coal into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
One, for example, from two and a half years ago, can be accessed on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site via:
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In addition to the vast commercial market that exists, to some large extent not yet fully exploited, for the productive and profitable use of Coal Ash in the making of Portland Cement and Portland Cement Concrete, which we have already documented in many previous reports and will document further, another large, and perhaps largely untapped, market for Coal Ash exists as a mineral filler in the manufacture of plastics composites.
The word "filler" is an unfortunate one to use, since it implies that a product is being "cheapened" somehow by the addition of a filler.
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Cooling Down Global Warming | UConn Today
As a change of pace from our relentless barrage of impeccable and precise United States Patents, although we have mined a few and will get to them shortly, documenting the true facts concerning how Carbon Dioxide, a valuable raw material resource, can be harvested on a practical basis and then be efficiently converted into an array of needed organic chemical products, including hydrocarbon fuels, we open herein with an off-the-top-lightly bit of reportage.
The University of Connecticut's campus newspaper, UConn Today, introduces us to technology being developed at and by the University of Connecticut, and one of their business incubator spin-offs; technology that enables, as many others we have already documented for you do, the profitable utilization of Carbon Dioxide - - as is co-produced in only a very small way, relative to natural sources of emission, such as volcanoes and geothermal vents, from our essential use of Coal in the generation of truly economical electric power - - as a raw material in the synthesis of hydrocarbons.
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We'll get right to the point:
Our United States Department of Energy demonstrated that, based on economic conditions in 2006, a Coal conversion facility using an indirect, Fischer-Tropsch process to convert high-Sulfur mid-west bituminous Coal into both low-Sulfur Diesel fuel and a Gasoline feedstock, both suitable for processing in a standard petroleum refinery, could make a profit of 20% with a crude oil market price of $65 per barrel and a cost of Coal, delivered, of $38 per ton.
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http://www.undeerc.org/carrc/
As now accessible via:
West Virginia Coal Association | State Governments Specify Use of Coal Ash | Research & Development;
we previously made report of:
"Engineering and Environmental Specifications of State Agencies for Utilization and Disposal of Coal Combustion Products: Volume 1 – DOT Specifications; 2005;
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