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United States Patent Application: 0110114504
In a very recent dispatch, now accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site via the link:
Princeton Scientists Convert More CO2 to Methanol and Ethanol | Research & Development; concerning:
"United States Patent Application 20110114502 - Reducing Carbon Dioxide to Products; May, 2011; Inventors: Emily Barton Cole (and) Andrew Bocarsly, et. al.; A method for reducing carbon dioxide to one or more products (including) ethanol, ethylene, ... methane, methanol ... and polymers";
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http://www.fossil.energy.gov/
We have, of course, several times documented the operation of an indirect Coal conversion facility in Kingsport, Tennessee, by the well-known Eastman Chemical Company.
At Kingsport, Coal is first gasified, that is, partially oxidized and converted into a blend of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide synthesis gas.
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We've been documenting, that, in addition to Carbon Dioxide and it's vast potential as a raw material for the synthesis of hydrocarbons, as seen, for just one out of now many examples, in our report of:
USDOE Converts CO2 to Gasoline | Research & Development; concerning the US Government-owned: "United States Patent 4,197,421 - Synthetic Carbonaceous Fuels and Feedstocks; 1980; Assignee: The United States of America; Abstract: This invention relates to the use of a three compartment electrolytic cell in the production of synthetic carbonaceous fuels and chemical feedstocks such as gasoline, methane and methanol by electrolyzing an aqueous sodium carbonate/bicarbonate solution, obtained from scrubbing atmospheric carbon dioxide with an aqueous sodium hydroxide solution, whereby the hydrogen generated at the cathode and the carbon dioxide liberated in the center compartment are combined thermocatalytically into methanol and gasoline blends";
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Carbon Recycling International
We're making the effort in this dispatch to clean up and summarize some information we've provided in earlier reports, concerning the development, in the small island nation of Iceland, of an industry founded on the manufacture of liquid hydrocarbons fuels via the recycling of Carbon Dioxide.
First, in two earlier submissions, now accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site via the links:
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We've made earlier report on the work underway at the University of California - Riverside, UCR, wherein both Coal and renewable, Carbon-recycling wastes are being together converted into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
Two of our dispatches concerning their efforts are accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site, via the links:
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