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In an earlier dispatch, now accessible via:
we made report of yet another of the many Coal, and other Carbon source, conversion technologies developed by the once-iconic Texaco, since vanished into the Chevron conglomerate.
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As we have stated previously, study of the available literature documenting the ways and means by which both Coal and Carbon Dioxide can be profitably converted into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons - and, boy, howdy, there sure is a lot of it - demonstrates that the most efficient results, in terms of total Carbon conversion and ranges of products generated, i.e., for instance, straight hydrocarbons versus alcohols, are achieved when elemental Hydrogen, as opposed to Steam, is used as the source of Hydrogen in the Carbon hydrogenation reactions.
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We've now documented many instances wherein technology has been developed, by very credible people and organizations, that enables the extraction of valuable minerals and metals from Coal power plant ash.
Oddly, most such Coal Ash "mining" technologies have originated in the upper mid-west, where they don't mine a whole lot of Coal, but sure do burn a bunch of it to generate economical electricity.
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We had been intending to make report of the extraordinary Carbon Dioxide recycling achievements of Russian emigre electrical engineer, Dr. Alex Severinsky, the founder of a couple of entrepreneurial start-up companies, and part-time lecturer at the University of Maryland.
Our documentation of his work had, heretofore, consisted primarily of Applications for United States Patents on his CO2-recycling processes and technologies; but, that has changed in somewhat dramatic fashion.
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As we've pretty thoroughly documented, the companies that ultimately coalesced into that beloved giant of the petroleum industry, ExxonMobil, had worked, and still are working, to refine the various processes by which Coal, and other Carbon sources, can be transformed into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
One of the ways in which that can be accomplished is via a process of gasification, wherein the Coal, and/or additional Carbon sources, are transformed through partial oxidation into a synthesis gas blend of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide, which gases can then be catalytically condensed into the desired hydrocarbons.
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