ScienceDirect - Fuel Processing Technology : Experimental study of synthesis gas production by coal and natural gas co-conver.
(With apologies to all our addressees, this is, we know, the third time we have attempted transmission of this report. The personal disabilities and technical insufficiencies we are working against flawed those previous attempts. We believe the topic to be of such importance, however, that we are compelled to persist, and we ask your patience as we try to so persevere. - JtM)
We have lately been extolling the many virtues of Methane, as can be synthesized, via Sabatier technology, from Carbon Dioxide.
Aside from our documented ability to use Methane to recycle more Carbon Dioxide, reacting the two together in "tri-reforming" processes, such as explained by scientists at Penn State University; and, aside from being able to convert Methane directly into liquid fuels, as demonstrated by the multiple US Patents for such technology held by ARCO, and by other patented technology dating back to the 1930's; we can also use Methane, as we have reported from multiple sources, to enhance the productivity of indirect Coal conversion processes targeted on the manufacture of liquid fuels.
Herein, from China, we have further confirmation of that last fact.
Comment follows excerpts from the above link to:
"Experimental study of synthesis gas production by coal and natural gas co-conversion process
Zhaobin Ouyang, et. al.
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
January, 2006
Abstract: A moving bed was used as the reactor in experiments to produce synthesis gas by coal and natural gas synthesis process. The effects of coal types ... were investigated by using coke, anthracite, lean and fat coals, as the raw materials. ... For produced crude synthesis gas ... the content of active compounds (Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide) is more than 92% ... . All these results demonstrated that the concept of coal and natural gas co-conversion process is positive and feasible."
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Although, for the technical reasons noted above, we have condensed our excerpt in the extreme, the essential truth remains:
Methane, i.e., "natural gas", as can be synthesized by the Sabatier-type recycling of Carbon Dioxide, or by the steam gasification of Coal, can be added to reaction streams to improve some processes of indirect Coal conversion, thereby generating a "crude synthesis gas", which can be converted via Fischer-Tropsch, and related, catalysis into liquid hydrocarbons, that has a "content of active compounds" of more than "92%".
