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United States Patent Application: 0100105962
As accessible via: Saudi Arabia Coverts CO2 to Fuel | Research & Development; we some time ago reported, via exposition of: "United States Patent Application Publication Number US2010/0190874A1;
Catalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide into Syngas Mixtures; July 29, 2010; Inventors: Agaddin Mamedov, Texas, and Abdulaziz Al-Jodai, et. al., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Abstract: The invention relates to a process of making a syngas mixture containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide comprising a step of contacting a gaseous feed mixture containing carbon dioxide and hydrogen with a catalyst (thus enabling) hydrogenation of carbon dioxide (and which process can be) integrated with other ... synthesis processes for making ... alcohols"; that:
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We have many times documented the USDOE-funded International Coal Refining (ICR) operation, a Coal liquefaction joint venture of the Air Products and Chemicals Company and Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc.; as most recently in: USDOE Funds Pennsylvania Coal Liquefaction | Research & Development.
Without linking to other of our earlier reports, we remind you that ICR itself was type of "Solvent Refined Coal", or "SRC", Coal liquefaction pilot-scale factory near Allentown, PA.
We have, in some of those earlier reports, noted that other entities, as well, participated in the development and operation of the ICR plant, and, herein, we learn, indirectly, that the University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Energy Research was one of those participants.
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Turning carbon dioxide into fuel
We're not able at this time to provide you with a reference link to our earlier dispatch concerning it, but, we have previously reported on the technology being developed at England's fabled Oxford University, technology which would enable us to, instead of treating our Coal Country effluent Carbon Dioxide like a shameful toxic waste, reclaim that Carbon Dioxide and utilize it in a way that reflects what it truly is:
A valuable raw material resource from which we can synthesize a wide variety of useful organic chemicals, including liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels.
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We have previously cited both of the Exxon scientists named as inventors herein; but, not, as far as we have yet been able to determine, in the context of the invention which is the subject of this report.
In the process they disclose via this United States Patent, they confirm several things we have - most often separately - already many times documented for you:
First, Coal can be gasified, and be made thereby to yield a blend of gases suitable for catalytic conversion into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels; with, during the gasification process itself, the direct formation of some liquids which can be expediently recovered prior to the catalytic conversion of the generated "syngas".
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In many previous reports, we've documented the participation of Pennsylvania's Air Products and Chemicals Company in the USDOE-sponsored International Coal Refining Company, ICR, and, in the operation, by ICR, of a pilot-scale Coal liquefaction facility in Allentown, PA.
Numerous US Patents related to Coal conversion technology arose from that effort, most of them assigned to ICR, with an included statement attesting to the US Government's part-ownership of the rights to the disclosed technology.
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