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Herein, from Australia, is yet further confirmation of the fact that Carbon Dioxide, as in other of our reports, can be utilized and consumed in the synthesis of Methanol.
The Disclosure, in fact, doesn't seem to reveal much about the process of Methanol synthesis itself, but focuses instead on the details of catalyst preparation.
Perhaps of interest, though, is the rather detailed Prior Art documentation, within the full Disclosure, of the fact that both Carbon Dioxide and Coal can be converted into Methanol.
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In the course of our reportage, we have made frequent reference to, and documented the reality of, ExxonMobil's "MTG"(r), Methanol-To-Gasoline, technology, wherein the Methanol is posited to be made from Coal.
As we have noted, catalyst formulations based on zeolite minerals are key to that process.
Herein, we learn that ExxonMobil's Coal conversion technology might, actually, only be derivative of similar technology first developed in West Virginia.
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As in many of our examples of Coal liquefaction art, the Japanese inventors named in this United States Patent, for an improved process of indirect Coal liquefaction, don't really talk about Coal all that much.
They reveal only the details of an improved process for converting "the synthesis gas" into liquid hydrocarbons, and don't, until their exposition of Background, reveal where "the synthesis gas" comes from.
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We present two, somewhat contemporary, developments of fairly recent vintage in this dispatch.
Taken together, the documents confirm related facts establishing the overall truth that Carbon Dioxide can be recycled through interaction with hot Coal, with the subsequent utilization of Water; and, via the combination of those processes, be consumed in the synthesis of hydrocarbon fuels.
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The, very nearly four decades old, Atlantic Richfield technology we report herein, as revealed by the United States Patent we enclose, confirms some earlier documentation we have provided you concerning the fact that exhaust, or "tail", gas, arising from the catalytic condensation of Coal-derived synthesis gas into liquid hydrocarbons, can be made so as to have some residual chemical value which can be further exploited.
Interestingly, ARCO's point, as explained herein by one of their scientists we have cited previously, seems to be that Coal synthesis gas can be generated in such a way that it has too much Hydrogen to be consumed in the initial catalytic synthesis of liquid hydrocarbons.
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