The lengths to which the petroleum powers will go to hide and obfuscate the facts of coal-to-liquid conversion technology would be amusing, if the issue weren't of such critical economic importance to the US, and, especially, to the people of Coal Country. The fact that we allow those oily gangsters to get away with it all is more than a little bemusing.
We've reported on Amoco Oil's GUV-sponsored fox-guarding-the-henhouse development of the "H-Coal", coal liquefaction, technology at a pilot plant in Catlettsburg, Kentucky.
It's been darned tough to find out anything substantive about that project. The DOE has a few modest quarterly reports that might, or might not, be available. But, to get the full story on converting Kentucky coal into domestic liquid fuels for the United States, we had to go to Greece - we think. Maybe it's Turkey. Might as well be Mars, for all the good it's done for those of us in Coal Country.
Check it out, seriously, and tell us with a straight face nobody's trying to hide anything.
The excerpt:
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| Doc ID | PAPYR-2876 |
| Doc Type | Report |
| Author | Vasalos, Iacovos A. |
| Title | Study of ebullated bed fluid dynamics for H-Coal. Quarterly progress report No. 1, August 22 - November 30, 1977 |
| Related Documents | 1. Study of ebullated bed fluid dynamics for H-Coal. Quarterly progress report No. 4, September 1 - November 30, 1978 (1978) 2. Study of ebullated bed fluid dynamics for H-Coal. Quarterly progress report No. 3, March 1, 1978 - May 31, 1978 (1978) 3. Study of ebullated bed fluid dynamics for H-Coal. Quarterly progress report No. 2, December 1, 1977 - February 28, 1978 (1978) 4. Study of ebullated bed fluid dynamics for H-Coal. Quarterly progress report No. 6, March 1 - May 31, 1979 (1979) |
| Pages | 1 - 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year | 1977 |
| Organization | Amoco Research Center |
| Abstract | The H-Coal process, developed by Hydrocarbon Research, Incorporated (HRI), involves the direct catalytic hydroliquefaction of coal to low-sulfur boiler fuel or synthetic crude oil. The 200-600 ton-per-day H-Coal pilot plant is being constructed next to the Ashland Oil, Incorporated refinery at Catlettsburg, Kentucky under ERDA contract to Ashland Synthetic Fuels, Incorporated. The H-Coal ebullated bed reactor contains at least four discrete components: gas, liquid, catalyst, and unconverted coal and ash. Because of the complexity created by these four components, it is desirable to understand the fluid dynamics of the system. The objective of this program is to establish the dependence of the ebullated bed fluid dynamics on process parameters. This will permit improved control of the ebullated bed reactor. The work to be performed is divided into three parts: review of prior work, cold flow model construction and operations, and mathematical modelling. The objective of this quarterly progress report is to outline progress in the first two parts during the first three months of the project. |
| Keywords | Coal liquefaction ; Liquefaction ; Thermochemical processes ; |
| Other Author(s) | Bild, E. M. / Amoco Research Center Evans, T. D. / Amoco Research Center Shields, S. E. / Amoco Research Center Tatterson, David F. / Amoco Research Center Wallin, C. C. / Amoco Research Center |
| Language | English" |
Well, they did give up contact links to a whole flock of US Amoco researchers. If anybody's really interested in the story, there's a place to start - if any of 'em will fess up to speaking English.