Patent US2676908
All the way back in 1948, the then Standard Oil of New Jersey acknowledged the US Bureau of Mines development, by their scientist Lewis Karrick, whose innovations in Coal conversion technology we have documented for you, of the Low Temperature Carbonization, "LTC", technology for Coal conversion, by hijacking it via the enclosed United States Patent, available through the above link and attached document.
Note that the patent, although awarded in 1954, was applied for in 1948; not long after everyone interested in the oil business, subsequent to WWII, should have become well-aware of Germany's and Japan's successes in fueling vast armies with liquid fuels made from a wide range of Coals.
The technology disclosed herein by Standard Oil, as they specify, is applicable to lignite low-grade coal and peat. Our supposition, our certain conclusion in fact, is that they already had other technologies in hand that were more suitable for converting higher-grade bituminous and anthracite coals into liquid fuels; and, by 1954, as we have earlier documented and will document further, other US Patents had already been issued for such bituminous Coal conversion technologies.
Comment is inserted in and appended to excerpts from:
"Carbonization of Lignite to Produce Motor Fuels - United States Patent 2,676,908
Date: April 27, 1954
Inventor: Henry Noel
Assignee: Standard Oil Development Company, NJ
Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for the efficient utilization of low grade carbonaceous solid materials, such as lignite, peat, and the like, and, more specifically, to a process for converting such materials into more valuable products, including motor fuels, aromatic hydrocarbons, fuel gases, and the like.
It has long been known ... (We love that oft-repeated phrase as it commonly appears in decades-old patents describing Coal conversion technologies. It's either innocent or facetious, we haven't yet decided.)
... that solid fuel material such as lignite, peat, etc., could be converted into more valuable liquid and gaseous fuels and chemicals ... ."
(They go on to describe that, in the operation of some of those "long ... known" Coal conversion technologies, unwanted phenolic compounds are often generated, as we have several times documented, as byproducts. In a few of our earlier reports, we documented how those phenols had been irresponsibly dumped at a few US Government-sponsored CoalTL development sites, and were fairly recently the focus of clean up efforts. Although this Standard technology doesn't describe it, we have documented technologies wherein those phenols can themselves be further converted into useful hydrocarbons.)
"It is the main object of the present invention to provide a means whereby low grade carbonaceous solids may be carbonized on a commercial scale to furnish high yields of aromatic material boiling in the naptha range which are suitable as high anti-knock blending agents for motor fuels."
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We will conclude our excerpts at that point, where Standard Oil of New Jersey, in 1948, asserts what later studies and research, some conducted under the auspices of our USDOD, confirm: Liquid fuels made from Coal are high-quality, and can actually be used to upgrade the lower-quality liquid fuels made from petroleum by being employed as "anti-knock blending agents" for those conventional petroleum fuels.
Regardless: More than sixty years ago, Big Oil and our own US Government, via this US Patent, confirmed that we can make high grade liquid motor fuel from "low grade carbonaceous solid."
