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This will be a somewhat lengthy dispatch; but, the references we include document the sequential, methodical development of a Coal hydrogenation technology, intended to efficiently convert Coal into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, that seems to us so integrated that reporting on each individual component separately wouldn't do justice to the work.
First, we remind you that the use of elemental, molecular Hydrogen for the hydrogenation of Coal, to form hydrocarbon liquids and gases, affords both efficiencies in the process and a better mix of hydrocarbons thus produced.
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In an earlier dispatch, now accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site via the link:
Wyoming Converts Coal Ash to Construction Aggregates | Research & Development; concerning:
"United States Patent 6,334,895 - Producing Manufactured Materials from Coal Combustion Ash; 2002; Inventor: Alan Bland, Wyoming; Assignee: The University of Wyoming Research Corporation; Abstract: This invention discloses a system for cold bond processing of combustion ash which enhances various characteristics of the resulting cured consolidated combustion ash materials. Specifically, the invention relates to processing techniques which enhances both density and strength of the of the consolidated combustion ash materials. The invention also relates to processing techniques which control various chemical reactions which assure that certain types of minerals are formed in the proper amounts which results in a cured consolidated combustion ash material which has greater dimensional stability and enhanced resistance to degradation. Embodiments for both normal weight and light weight combustion ash aggregates are disclosed which meet various ASTM and AASHTO specifications";
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We've made previous report of the CO2-recycling wonder bugs developed by our USDOE's, and/or their contractors', genius geneticist, James Weifu Lee, as can be accessed via:
USDOE Algae Recycle More CO2 and Produce Hydrogen | Research & Development; concerning:
"United States Patent 7,642,405 - Designer Algae for Photo-biological Hydrogen Production; 2010; Inventor: James W. Lee, Tennessee; This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 awarded by the United States Department of energy. The Government has certain rights in this invention. Abstract: A switchable photosystem-II designer algae for photo-biological hydrogen production. The designer transgenic algae includes at least two transgenes for enhanced photo-biological H2 production. In one embodiment, a photo-bioreactor and gas-product separation and utilization system produce photo-biological H2 from the switchable ... designer alga. The source of electrons for the metabolic ... H2 production is organic reserves such as starch ... made (during) photosynthetic Carbon Dioxide fixation."
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Actually, the California rocket scientists in our headline are both gasifying and liquefying Coal through direct, controlled reactions of Coal with elemental Hydrogen.
We know that the use of elemental, molecular Hydrogen sounds expensive, and likely is.
But, as we recently reported in:
Standard Oil Converts Coal with Methane and Hydrogen | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 4,326,944 - Rapid Hydropyrolysis of Carbonaceous Solids; 1982; Assignee: Standard Oil Company of Indiana; Abstract: A method is disclosed for recovering liquids and gases by a rapid hydropyrolysis of carbonaceous solids";
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Plant Would Let Algae Turn Carbon Dioxide to Fuel - NYTimes.com
We actually sent the initial link in this dispatch to you more than two and a half years ago, in a report now accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site, via the link:
Plant Would Let Algae Turn Carbon Dioxide to Fuel | Research & Development.
But, herein, since Dow Chemical, of Michigan, is a company whose name should be familiar to everyone who's managed to climb down off the mountain in the last fifty years or so, we wanted to readdress the same topic; especially since there have been some further developments in this Carbon Dioxide recycling endeavor, as we document with additional links and excerpts, following some expanded "refreshers" excerpted from that original article, as follows:
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