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United States Patent Application: 0140251822
We've presented many reports concerning the development of the Carbon Dioxide recycling and utilization technology known generically as "syntrolysis", wherein CO2 and Water, H2O, are co-electrolyzed, and made thereby to produce, as most often specified, a blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen; that is, synthesis gas, and, which "syngas" can then be catalytically, chemically condensed, as via for one example the long-known Fischer-Tropsch process, into hydrocarbons - which hydrocarbons are most often specified to be liquids, such as Gasoline, Diesel, Alcohols, and what can be thought of as synthetic Petroleum.
The USDOE, via especially their Idaho National Laboratory, in partnership with the Utah company, Ceramatec, Inc., have been very active in recent years in the development of such CO2-utilization syntrolysis technology, as explained perhaps most succinctly in Ceramatec's US Patent for the "electrochemical cell" needed to conduct syntrolysis reactions, as seen in our report of:
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United States Patent Application: 0140239231
An advance note: The Carbon Dioxide utilization technology we report to you herein is comprehensive and, perhaps, overly-complex in it's presentation. That's not meant as a criticism, really; but, the scope of it all limits even further our already-limited ability to provide a concise and coherent exposition of it.
To be clear: Contained within the dissertation are summaries of the ways and means by which Carbon Dioxide, as we might recover from the stack gasses of our economically essential Coal-fired electric power generation plants, can be substituted as a raw material for everything, quite literally everything, all fuels and chemicals, we now allow our nation to be bled dry to continue making from imported OPEC petroleum.
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Carbon Dioxide, as it arises in only a small way - - relative to some all-natural, un-taxable and non-political sources of it's emission, such as the Earth's inexorable processes of planetary volcanism - - from our economically-essential use of Coal in the generation of genuinely-abundant and truly-affordable electric power, could be made to be a valuable, even a precious, raw material resource.
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Purdue University, actually, with regards to the headline, is explaining herein the "Basics" only of "indirect" Coal-to-Liquid Fuels technology, wherein Coal, usually combined with water, either in a liquid slurry or with applied steam, is first "gasified" - that is,partially combusted or oxidized - to produce a blend of, primarily, Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, that is, hydrocarbon synthesis gas. And, which "syngas" is then chemically, catalytically condensed into hydrocarbons.
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By way of acknowledgement, this dispatch will be, in essence, a repeat of core information we earlier made report of. But, it bears repeating since the focus of our discourse concerns the fact that our United States Government has, officially, confirmed that a Nobel Prize-winning chemist led the development of technology which enables the efficient electrolytic conversion of a blend of Carbon Dioxide and Water into a hydrocarbon synthesis gas blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen.
Such synthesis gas, or "syngas", we remind you, can be catalytically, chemically condensed into both liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, as via, for one example, the now nearly-ancient Fischer-Tropsch process.
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