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Since we are, today, sending along, via separate dispatch, information concerning technology developed by Chevron which would reduce energy transportation costs, by converting Coal into crude liquid hydrocarbons at facilities attached to, or nearby, remote mine sites, we see, herein, that the US Navy has addressed the same, or broadly-related, issue as it pertains to the recycling of Carbon Dioxide.
First, to re-establish some preliminaries, Carbon Dioxide can be converted into Methane, CH4, by the 1912 Nobel Prize-winning Sabatier process. And, as we have documented now from many sources, especially Penn State University, once we have Methane, we can react it with more Carbon Dioxide, in bi-reforming and tri-reforming processes, and thereby synthesize liquid hydrocarbons.
Carbon Dioxide and Water, which are the starting materials for such processes, are, of course, available nearly everywhere.
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1915 CO2 Recycling | Research & Development | News
This dispatch will be cumbersome to read and, perhaps, somewhat redundant, since we're including, in addition to the initial link, which leads to one of our reports already posted on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site, an additional four links, with excerpts, one or two of which you might, as well, have already seen.
We think it important to put them all together in this fashion, since, taken as a whole, they illustrate quite clearly one pathway in which a potential we have several times documented can be made real, which potential being, that:
Carbon Dioxide, reclaimed from whatever source, and Coal, can be combined and reacted together; and, the products of their interaction can then be recombined in a coordinated sequence of additional reactions that will lead to the synthesis and production of hydrocarbons.
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We must preface this submission with some caveats.
First, concerning the named inventor of the US Patent we enclose via the above link, there was, according to web-based resources, a Wilburn Schroeder who worked at the US Bureau of Mines Experiment Station in College Park, MD.
But, he worked for the USBM, it seems, during the 1940's; and, there is no indication in the full disclosure of this patent, issued nearly forty years subsequent to Schroeder's verifiable tenure at the College Park USBM lab, concerning the state of his health.
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Without further citation, we submit that one of the two inventors named in the United States Patent we discuss herein, Paul Witt, is a native of Dunbar, WV, who, according to web-based resources, is now employed by Dow Chemical.
At the time the technology disclosed by this patent was being developed, Witt was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, studying under the tutelage of Professor Lanny Schmidt, Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
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http://wvuscholar.wvu.edu:8881//exlibris/dtl/d3_1/apache_media/22699.pdf
We have many times made reference to West Virginia University's "West Virginia Process" for the direct liquefaction of Coal.
In that technical process, WVU employs, we have been led to believe, as do others in similar technologies we have documented for you, a Hydrogen-donor solvent most commonly referred to as "Tetralin".
The more proper, technical name is "Tetrahydronaphthalene", and, it is synthesized by hydrogenating the primary Coal oil, Naphthalene.
Herein, we wanted, especially in light of pending reports concerning developments, in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, to affirm and further illustrate the detail and depth of understanding, as regards the preparation and utility of Tetralin, that exists at WVU.
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