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Without linking to earlier reports, we remind you that we have previously documented the "International Coal Refining Company", which was a USDOE-funded joint venture between Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc., and Pennsylvania's Air Products and Chemicals company, that built, and for a brief time operated, a "Solvent Refined Coal", or SRC, Coal liquefaction facility near Allentown, PA.
That plant was intended to, ultimately, be a large-scale Coal conversion factory, the plans of which called for it, after initial trials and start-up, to be expanded to produce 100,00 barrels, per day, of Oil, from 30,000 tons, per day, of Coal.
Which, almost of course, for unknown reasons we must hold suspect, never happened.
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We've many times documented and referred to West Virginia University's "West Virginia Process" for the direct liquefaction of Coal.
Again, our understanding of the West Virginia Process is that it utilizes, as do some others we've documented for you, the hydrogen donor solvent known most commonly as "Tetralin", which, again as we've documented, is an hydrogenated version of the long-known primary Coal oil, Naphthalene, to effect the hydrogenation and dissolution raw Coal.
A little more information concerning that WVU technology can be found, for one instance, in a fairly recent report we made, accessible via: WVU Hydrogenates Coal Tar | Research & Development | News; wherein is detailed:
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Since we are, via separate dispatch today, sending along report of: United States Patent: 4077778; wherein Exxon discloses a process that can convert up to 99%, essentially all, of the Carbon content in Coal into Methane, we wanted, herein, to again confirm that Methane - once we have it, perhaps as efficiently synthesized, via the process of USP 4,077,778, from Coal - can be reacted, "reformed", with Carbon Dioxide, reclaimed from whatever source, in a reaction that converts both of those accused greenhouse culprits into valuable liquid hydrocarbons.
Of additional interest might be the fact that such seemingly-valuable knowledge was established in Pittsburgh, PA, in the very early days of our US involvement in WWII.
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We submit herein yet more confirmation of the fact that Coal can, with perhaps surprising efficiency, be converted into Methane gas.
That fact has some implications which should, if you have followed our posts thus far, have some portent for you relative not only to the profitable - to some privileged few - myth that hydrocarbon fuels are in short supply and the costs of them thus must keep going up, but, as well, to the now-obvious, and obviously deliberately-fostered, fallacy that Carbon Dioxide is nothing more than a dangerous waste which must somehow, perhaps through Geologic Sequestration, at great expense to our vital Coal-use industries and their customers, but at great benefit to Oil producers engaged in the secondary scrounging of last Petroleum dregs from natural reservoirs, be disposed of.
Via separate dispatch today, as we note in concluding comments, we are providing yet more documentation regarding the Carbon Dioxide fallacy, which does relate to the Coal technology disclosed herein by Exxon.
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As now available on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site as:
Exxon Coal + CO2 + H2O Combo Gasification & Conversion | Research & Development | News;
wherein is detailed: "United States Patent 4,318,712 - Catalytic Coal Gasification Process; March, 1982; Inventors: Robert Lang and Joanne Pabst; Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering, NJ";
we have previously documented that, essentially three decades ago, a team of Exxon scientists had, in confirmation of many similar reports concerning such potentials we have now brought to your attention, devised a technology and process of Coal hydro-, or Steam-, gasification which is so productive of Hydrogen that it enables the addition of Carbon Dioxide, recovered from other sources, into the mix of Coal and Steam, that, when all are appropriately reacted together, can be converted into a synthesis gas suitable for catalytic transmutation, as via, for one instance, the Fischer-Tropsch process, into a variety of gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons.
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