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Biodiesel Magazine | biodieselmagazine.com
Somewhat encouragingly, and, as well, indirectly, somewhat discouragingly, a flagship publication of the clean, green biofuels lobby is openly reporting on a topic, actually two topics, two facts, that hardly ever, if ever, see the light of day in the US Coal Country public press, which are:
Coal can, cleanly and efficiently, be converted into liquid hydrocarbon replacements for anything we now extract and derive from increasingly dear - in terms of: our money, our environment, and the lives of our young people fighting OPEC nation wars - natural petroleum;
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Combustion Byproducts Recycling Consortium - West Virginia Water Research Institute
In a recent dispatch concerning just some of the potential values that could be attained by starting to view the solid by-products of Coal combustion, most often lumped together under the label of "fly ash", now accessible via the link:
Iowa Mines Metals from Coal Ash for the USDOE | Research & Development;
and, which demonstrates that fly ash can actually be utilized almost as an "ore" from which we can extract certain valuable and needed metals; we included a link to a recent news article published by the West Virginia Coal Association, concerning:
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Production of carbon monoxide and other gases from carbonaceous materials
As we've documented in many previous reports, the former, so ubiquitous that it was almost iconic, Texaco Corporation, which finally disappeared into the maw of the Chevron conglomerate over the course of the last decade, had worked, since the 1940's, on the development of an extensive portfolio of Carbon conversion technologies focused on the transmutation of just about anything that contained Carbon into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
The primary focus of their Carbon conversion efforts centered on an initial transformation of the Carbon source into synthesis gas, or "syngas", a blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen that could then, through catalytic technology developed most famously by Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch, as in:
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Energy Citations Database (ECD) - - Document #5878451
In coming days we'll be diverging a bit from the core thesis of our reportage, i.e., that both Coal and Carbon Dioxide, along with Carbon-recycling and sustainable botanical materials, can be cleanly and efficiently converted into any liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon fuel, or other hydrocarbon product, that we currently rely on increasingly scarce, increasingly hazardous and increasingly expensive natural petroleum for the supply of.
There are other topics related to the profound and extraordinary value of Coal which demand attention.
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The technologies which exist for converting our abundant Coal into more versatile liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons have been around so long, unbeknownst to the majority of those of us resident in US Coal Country, that a great deal of effort has been applied by practitioners of Coal conversion art to the productive disposal and utilization of wastes that might be generated by such processes.
We've documented, and will further document, the use of Coal ash, as might be co-produced by the use of Coal for generating electricity, as an additive, or even a nearly-complete replacement, for the mineral constituents of conventional cement compositions and concrete, as, for just one instance, in:
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