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We've made previous reports on the use of Coal Ash both as a property-enhancing and cost-reducing inorganic "filler" for some types of plastic, as seen in:
Carbon Dioxide + Coal Fly Ash = Synthetic Lumber | Research & Development; concerning, in part: "United States Patent Application 20080029925 - Filled Polymer Composite and Synthetic Building Material; 2008; Abstract: The invention relates to composite compositions having a matrix of polymer networks and dispersed phases of particulate or fibrous materials. The matrix is filled with a particulate phase, which can be selected from one or more of a variety of components, such as fly ash particles";
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As we read the available literature - and, by now, it should be obvious that there is a lot of it - concerning the conversion of our abundant Coal into direct replacements for scarce natural hydrocarbons, it's becoming clear that most technologies for the conversion of Coal into hydrocarbons have been devised to "finesse", for want of a better term, the transfer of Hydrogen to Coal, and the bonding of the Hydrogen with the Carbon, to form hydrocarbons.
For just one, out of now many, many examples, we refer you to our report of:
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In a recent dispatch, now accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site via the link:
Georgia Tech Recycles Coal Utilization Byproducts | Research & Development; and concerning: "United States Patent 8,057,594 - High Strength Pozzolan Foam Materials and Methods of Making Same; November, 2011; Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA; Abstract: The various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to high strength foam materials and methods of making the same. More particularly, various embodiments of the present invention relate to high strength foam materials comprising pozzolans, such as cenospheres derived from fly ash";
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We've presented a number of reports based on documents attesting to the development of a Carbon Dioxide recycling technology, seemingly labeled "Syntrolysis", by our United States Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, in partnership with a private Utah-based company, Ceramatec, Inc., of Salt Lake City.
Those reports have included, for example, as accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site:
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As we have previously, though sporadically, documented over the course of our reportage, a number of different elements, all metals of one sort or another, and compounds of those metals, can serve as catalysts in processes wherein Coal is converted, directly or indirectly, into gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons.
In fact, in more-recently developed indirect Coal conversion technologies, wherein Coal is first gasified, that is, converted into a blend of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide synthesis gas, and, which "syngas" is then chemically condensed, as via the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, into hydrocarbons, it's been demonstrated that catalysts can serve in at least two processes within such systems.
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