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Energy Citations Database (ECD) - - Document #5638881
We have previously reported on the efforts that have been underway in Arkansas, which utilize certain strains of bacteria, or other microorganisms, as bio-catalytic agents in the conversion of Coal into hydrocarbons.
As can be seen in: Arkansas, USBM Convert Coal to Methane | Research & Development | News; and, in:
Arkansas: Biological Coal Conversion | Research & Development | News; not only has the University of Arkansas been investigating such potentials, they have been supported in at least some of their research by the US Bureau of Mines offices and labs in Pittsburgh, PA.
Herein, via the initial link, we submit further documentation of both their bacteria-assisted Coal conversion efforts, and of the United States Department of Energy's support, and knowledge of, those efforts.
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We have many times made reference to ExxonMobil's "MTG"(r), methanol-to-gasoline, technology, wherein the methanol is posited to be made from Coal.
We have also documented their specification and use of a specific "zeolite" mineral, most often designated as "ZSM-5", as the preferred catalyst, or catalyst carrier, for such Coal conversion processes.
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Since we are, today, via separate dispatch, sending along a report concerning: "United States Patent 4,609,440 - Electrochemical Synthesis of Methane", wherein a "method is described for electrochemically reducing carbon dioxide to form methane", we wanted to again confirm that Methane, once we have it, preferably synthesized from Carbon Dioxide, as, perhaps, in the process of USP 4,609,440, we can then react, or "reform", that Methane with even more Carbon Dioxide, and thereby synthesize liquid hydrocarbon fuels, including Gasoline.
Note that, as reported by multiple web-based sources, the corporate assignee of the rights to the invention disclosed herein, Lyondell Petrochemical, was once the third-largest US-based chemicals company. It was acquired by, or merged with, the Netherlands-based Bassell company in late 2007. The new company, creatively named LyondellBassell, is now officially headquartered in the Netherlands, but maintains it's corporate business headquarters at Lyondell's original home offices in Houston, Texas.
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Last summer, as accessible via: Chicago Recycles CO2 to Methanol | Research & Development | News; we sent you information concerning: United States Patent: 4609441 - "Electrochemical Reduction of Aqueous Carbon Dioxide to Methanol; 1986; Karl Frese, et. al.; Assignee: Gas Research Institute, Chicago; Abstract: A method of producing methanol from carbon dioxide ...".
However, since we are, today, via separate dispatch, sending along yet more information documenting the fact that Carbon Dioxide, recovered from whatever source, can be reacted, "reformed", with Methane, CH4, and be made thereby to serve as a raw material for the synthesis of both Methanol and Gasoline, we wanted, herein, to confirm, as established by the same team of Chicago scientists noted above, that such useful Methane can itself, as well, be synthesized from Carbon Dioxide.
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Energy Citations Database (ECD) - - Document #952162
Herein is even more confirmation, from our US Department of Energy's southwestern labs, that Carbon Dioxide can, efficiently and productively, be reclaimed, and then be recycled into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
First, we remind you that we have previously cited two of the co-authors of the report we enclose herein, Richard Diver and James Miller, previously, with regards to the USDOE's development of technologies that would, if implemented, enable such profitable recycling of Carbon Dioxide.
And, some of the wording of the report we enclose herein might thus ring very familiar, especially in regards to the dangers we face by continuing our uncorrected dependence on unreliable sources of natural petroleum.
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