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Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Sponsored by OSTI
In a number of our previous reports, we've documented the Carbon Dioxide recycling achievements of several highly-accomplished scientists: Carol Kreutz, Etsuko Fujita and Meyer Steinberg, all of whom worked in our taxes-paid employ at our own United States Department of Energy's Brookhaven, NY, National Laboratory.
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Continuous process for effecting catalytic reactions
Most of us who grew up in West Virginia, and other Coal-mining states, in the 1950's and 1960's, at one time or another became acquainted with the old, traditional Coal miner's "cap lamp": an ingenious little affair that trickled Water into a closed reservoir of Calcium Carbide, thereby generating Acetylene gas that was directed through a nozzle in the center of a polished metal reflector, where it was ignited with a flint spark wheel similar to that on the old Zippo lighter you used to fire up the L&M's you pilfered from your Dad.
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In one or two previous reports, such as:
USDOE Evaluates Coal Hydrogasification Processes | Research & Development; concerning: "Analysis of coal hydrogasification processes; 1978; DOE Contract: EF-77-A-01-2565; Research Organization: Bechtel Corp., San Francisco, CA; Abstract: Bechtel Corporation has conducted a program to investigate the operability potential and scaleup feasibility of the Cities Service, Rocketdyne, Pittsburgh Energy Research Center (PERC), and Brookhaven National Laboratory coal hydrogasification processes. ... The hydrogasification stage has a configuration similar to the Rocketdyne reactor assembly";
we've made note of the development of Coal conversion technology by the California aerospace technology firm, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, whose Coal hydrogasifiers are based on rocket engine technology.
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In a recent report, we documented research that had been done by the Ohio Coal Research Center, at Ohio University, under contract to the USDOE, directed towards the identification and selection of specific organisms best suited to serve in relatively-compact "bio-reactors"; that is, processing units conjectured to be installed at fossil fuel-based power plants, where they would absorb the exhaust gases and convert, through photosynthesis, the Carbon Dioxide in those gases into compounds of commercial value.
In that report, as accessible via:
Ohio Improves CO2 Bio-Recycling | Research & Development; concerning: "Carbon Dioxide Mitigation Through Controlled Photosynthesis; October, 2000; USDOE Contract Number: FG26-99FT40592";
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The two, closely-related United States Patents at the core of this report are focused on the disclosure of an improved catalyst and process for reacting Carbon Monoxide with Hydrogen to make synthetic fuels.
The Japanese inventors don't dwell much on the sources of those two gases, but do mention, almost in passing, that: "a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, is produced through ... coal gasification".
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