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We have documented many times that processes for the hydro-gasification of Coal, wherein Steam is employed as one of the agents of gasification, so as to increase the Hydrogen content of the resulting hydrocarbon Synthesis Gas, can be made so efficient that the entire solid Carbon content of the Coal is consumed in the gasification process.
There are no carbonaceous residues remaining which must somehow be disposed of.
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As seen in just one of our earlier reports:
Germany Co-Produces Methanol & Power from Coal | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 4,665,688 - Power Generating Station with Integrated Coal Gasification; 1987; Germany; Abstract: Power generating plant with an integrated coal gasification plant, with a heat exchanger and gas purification plant connected to the coal gasifier, with a gas turbine and steam power generating plant part connected to the heat exchanger and gas purification plant, and with a methanol synthesis plant";
it is feasible to construct a Coal conversion factory that could generate electricity as a by-product of Methanol production, by harvesting heat from the hot, primarily Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, "Syngas" generated from Coal, as it was being conveyed to the Methanol synthesis reactor.
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Exxon brings a number of things we have previously documented for you together in this US Patent, for yet another Carbon Dioxide recycling technology targeted on the production of a blend of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide: a synthesis gas that can then be catalytically condensed into higher, liquid hydrocarbons.
First, it is another of the "tri-reforming" techniques, which our domestic petroleum industry, including some of the companies related and precedent to Exxon/ExxonMobil, began developing shortly after WWII; and, in which Carbon Dioxide, Methane and Water are reacted together and made thereby to form such a hydrocarbon synthesis gas. As seen, for one example, in our report of:
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We've previously cited the former Gulf Oil Corporation's Coal scientist, Bruce Schmid, who worked for Gulf's Pittsburg (KS) and Midway Mining subsidiary, at least half a dozen times, in the course of documenting the extensive Coal conversion and liquefaction technology that had been developed and become owned, but left unused, by a one-time major player on Big Oil's roster.
We insert, and append, reference links to some of those past reports along with the two additional Gulf Oil Coal conversion technologies we submit herein, especially since some of the disclosed processes are closely-related to, even integral with, our present subjects.
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We've previously cited Pittsburgh's Koppers Company, and the Koppers scientist named as the inventor in the United States Patent for Coal gasification technology we report in this dispatch.
An example would be: Pittsburgh Company Coal Conversion Technology | Research & Development; which reports: "'Economics of the Koppers Gasification Process for Synthetic Gas and Chemical Manufacture';
John F. Kamody and J. Frank Cannon; Koppers Company, Inc.; Pittsburgh, PA; The commercially proven Koppers K-T gasification process is employed for the gasification of coal and other carbonaceous fuels to produce a carbon monoxide and hydrogen rich gas (i.e., "syngas")".
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