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We recently made report, as now accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site via:
Oklahoma Oxygen Donor Coal Gasification | Research & Development;
of an innovative Coal gasification technique, developed by Phillips Petroleum and as disclosed in the report through a series of three United States Patents awarded to Phillips, that uses an intermediary, Zinc Oxide, to accomplish both the controlled gasification of Coal, to produce, primarily, Carbon Monoxide, in a way which nearly eliminates the co-production of Carbon Dioxide, and, which, in the regeneration of the oxidant Zinc Oxide, produces Hydrogen, for combining with the Carbon Monoxide to form hydrocarbon synthesis gas, from Water.
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Method and means for hydrocarbon synthesis
The information we enclose in this dispatch will, no doubt, seem to be just more tedious repetition of facts we have, from many other sources, already established:
Carbon Dioxide can be reacted, "reformed", with Methane, with or without, depending upon the final product mix desired, the inclusion of other raw materials such as Oxygen and Steam, and be made, through such reforming reactions, to generate a synthesis gas, or "syngas", blend of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide suitable for subsequent Fischer-Tropsch, and related, catalytic chemical condensation into hydrocarbons.
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Gasification of carbonaceous solids
We recently sent you report of a process developed by ExxonMobil, a seemingly-advanced technology which enables the co-conversion of both Coal and Carbon-recycling organic materials into a synthesis gas blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, a gas mixture which would be suitable for catalytic chemical condensation into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
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We enclose, with advance apologies for the length and breadth of this dispatch, a series of United States Patents so closely related that treating them separately would have confused the issue and done injustice to the technical concepts they embody.
In brief sum, we have many times made reference to the use of Hydrogen donor substances in Coal conversion processes.
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Gasification of combustible materials
In a recent dispatch, now accessible via:
West Virginia & New York Coal to Hydrocarbon Syngas | Research & Development; we reported on a Coal hydro-gasification process that had been invented in Charleston, WV, by a scientist in the employ of New York's FMC Corporation; which, as we've documented in many other reports, has a long history of involvement in various Coal conversion research and development endeavors.
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