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Process of synthesizing hydrocarbons
We've earlier reported, as in:
Standard Oil Carbon Monoxide + Water = Gasoline | Research & Development; which concerned: "United States Patent 4,559,363 - Process for Reacting Carbon Monoxide and Water; Date: December, 1985; A process for reacting carbon monoxide and water ... for the production of hydrocarbons by reacting carbon monoxide and water"; that:
Catalysts, and processes based on those catalysts, exist, which enable the synthesis of hydrocarbons from nothing but Water, perhaps in the form of Steam, and Carbon Monoxide as the starting materials.
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Herein, we submit a sequence of documents which, taken in total, might represent a productive route for the utilization of a pollutant that can be created during the Steam-gasification of Coal, itself undertaken to generate a synthesis gas suitable for subsequent catalytic processing into hydrocarbons.
First, we remind you of: FMC Corporation Recovers Sulfur from Coal Syngas | Research & Development; which makes report of a technique for the extraction of Sulfur from a process for the:"gasification of carbonaceous solids (i.e., Coal) with steam to give product gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen" suitable for catalytic condensation into various hydrocarbons, and wherein the Coal gasification can result in the co-production of Sulfur Oxides.
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Chinese coal producer reaps huge profits from CTL project
The cost of Coal liquefaction, done to provide substitutes for all the fuels and other products we now derive from petroleum, has been raised as an objection to the implementation of Coal liquefaction technology.
We have in previous reports documented cost analyses, which demonstrate that Coal conversion can, indeed, be very cost-competitive with petroleum; and, maybe even more than competitive, especially if we consider the indirect loss of wealth to our nation, and to our domestic economy, incurred by both the purchase of foreign petroleum and the expenditures we, as a nation, must make to defend both those overseas sources of oil and the transportation routes that bring the oil from them, to us.
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United States Patent Application: 0020072109
This will be an overly-long dispatch, and we apologize for it's extent. But, there is a lot of ground to cover.
We have, over the past several years, presented many reports documenting the genuine potentials which exist for the productive, and profitable, recycling of Carbon Dioxide: whether naturally-occurring, such as the vast quantities of it emitted by volcanoes; or, human-derived, such as the CO2 generated in the processes of cement-making.
We have focused, in those reports, primarily on the direct, industrial recycling and usage of Carbon Dioxide, as seen more recently in:
ConocoPhillips Recycles Even More CO2 | Research & Development; which includes the details of: "United States Patent 7,273,893 - Process for Converting Carbon Dioxide to Oxygenates; 2007; Assignee: ConocoPhillips Company, Houston; Abstract: A catalyst and process for converting ... a feed comprising carbon dioxide and hydrogen into methanol and dimethyl ether"; and, in:
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Carbon Dioxide, reclaimed from practically any source, can be productively recycled in the synthesis and manufacture of both gaseous and liquid hydrocarbon fuels, and, of valuable industrial chemicals.
We've previously cited the two, what we presume to be former, Texaco scientists named as inventors of the United States Patent we enclose herein, attesting to that fact, as can be seen in:
Texaco Recycles CO2 to Methanol & Methane | Research & Development; wherein is reported: "United States Patent 4,523,981 - Means and Method for Reducing Carbon Dioxide to Provide a Product; 1985;
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