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Gasification of carbonaceous solid fuels
The United States Patent we enclose in this dispatch presents documentation of some facts concerning Coal gasification and conversion that represent only a slight variation on themes about which we've earlier reported.
Our more recent research, however, has uncovered some later and more sophisticated technologies for the indirect conversion of Coal into hydrocarbons, with little to no emissions of Carbon Dioxide or Sulfur, that seem to have evolved from the concepts established herein.
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Just this past January, we made report of a United States Patent Application, submitted by Shell Oil Company, wherein Coal and Carbon-recycling "waste" materials, along with a stream of Carbon Dioxide gas, in which the solid carbonaceous particles are carried, are all converted into a synthesis gas blend of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide suitable for catalytic chemical condensation into the valuable and versatile alcohol, Methanol, and the substitute Diesel fuel, Dimethyl Ether.
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http://www.ems.psu.edu/~
As you know, presuming you to have followed our reports over the past several years, The Pennsylvania State University has devoted considerable effort into the development of technologies that would enable us to begin treating the Carbon Dioxide byproduct of our essential and vital use of Coal for the generation of electrical power as what it truly is:
An available and cheap source of Carbon which can be productively utilized, through a variety of ways, in the synthesis and manufacture of a wide range of organic products, including hydrocarbon fuels.
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Energy Citations Database (ECD) - - Document #1001343
The document we submit herein, as accessible via the above link, and, which we've downloaded and saved should the link mysteriously somehow later fail to function properly, makes report of the results of one segment of what seems to be a larger, and ongoing, current research project being funded by our USDOE.
We are attempting to track down other reports related to the project and will bring them to you as circumstances allow.
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West Virginia Coal Association | Chicago Bugs Convert CO2 into Methane | Research & Development
We are thrilled to see our report, as linked above, on the front page.
However, sadly, as too often and, to us, inexplicably happens, links to US Patent Applications provided and published on the web by the USPTO themselves sometimes, somehow, "shift" in their connections.
The link in the above WV Coal Association web site posting now no longer connects with:
"United States Patent Application 20090130734 - The Production of Methane from CO2; Date: May, 2009;
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