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As in our recent post: 1940 CO2 + H2O + CH4 = Hydrocarbon Syngas | Research & Development | News; wherein is detailed: "US Patent 2,198,553 - Making a Synthesis Gas Mixture of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen; 1940; George Roberts; Assignee: The M.W. Kellogg Company, NY"; we have, as certified therein by the United States Patent office, known since the early days of WWII that we can "tri-reform" Carbon Dioxide, in a fashion very similar to that explained more lately by scientists, such as Chunsan Song and Craig Grimes, at Penn State University, and thereby generate a synthesis gas suitable for catalytic condensation into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
Herein, we see that the above-named inventor of USP 2,198,553 continued his work, subsequent and relative to award of that patent, and, later in WWII, M.W. Kellogg, now a component of the Texas-based petroleum industry services company, Kellogg, Brown & Root, was assigned the rights to yet another patent, for equipment and physical plant related to the recycling of Carbon Dioxide through such reactions with Methane and Water vapor.
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What should be of exceptional interest in this United States Patent, as linked above, the rights to which all of us US citizens, in theory, whether or not anyone wants us to know it, own, is, that, in addition to synthesizing the valuable liquid fuel, and, as in ExxonMobil's "MTG"(r) technology, Gasoline raw material, Methanol, from Methane gas, we can, as a co-product, also generate useful quantities of elemental Hydrogen.
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Last summer, as accessible via:
Exxon Improves Coal Liquefaction with Hydrogen Sulfide | Research & Development | News;
we sent you information concerning Exxon's development of Coal liquefaction technology as disclosed by:
"United States Patent 4,094,765 - Coal Liquefaction Process; 1978; Exxon Research and Engineering Company; Abstract: A coal liquefaction chargestock is first treated with a hydrogen sulfide-containing gas and thereafter subjected to coal liquefaction conditions"; wherein Hydrogen Sulfide, H2S, an otherwise objectionable product - even though it is closely related, on an elemental basis, to plain old Water, H2O - can be utilized, as can Water, in other, somewhat related, Coal liquefaction processes, to help promote the hydrogenation and liquefaction of Coal.
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Last summer, as accessible via:
Mobil Co-Liquefies Coal & CO2-Recycling Wastes | Research & Development | News;
we sent you information concerning Mobil Oil Corporation's development of Coal liquefaction technology as disclosed by:
"US Patent 4,089,773 - Liquefaction of Solid Carbonaceous Materials; 1978; Mobil Oil Corporation, NY", wherein "an improved process for solubilizing coal and other solid carbonaceous materials" was disclosed in which not only Coal, but Carbon-recycling organic wastes, including "municipal refuse (and/or) sewage sludge (and/or) cellulosic waste", could all be liquefied together - - with or without the addition of a Hydrogen donor solvent selected from "phenanthrene, dihydrophenanthrene, tetralins, hydropyrenes or mixtures thereof"; any and all which were stated to themselves be "a product of coal liquefaction".
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Our headline might, perhaps, be perceived as somewhat misleading. There is no evidence that General Motors and Conoco were directly collaborating; nor is that really our intended implication.
And, we cannot affirm, through separate reference, that the "GM Global Technologies, Inc." company, headquartered in Michigan and listed as one of the assignees of the patent rights herein, is, in fact, a subsidiary of Michigan's General Motors Corporation; as logical as the assumption might be.
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