United States Patent: 3779725
Since we most recently documented how, through a multiplicity of United States Patents, the University of Southern California's Nobel Laureate, George Olah, has more than adequately demonstrated the practicality of converting Methane into Gasoline, we wanted to again affirm that the Methane needed for such conversion into Gasoline; or, any Methane needed for use in Tri-reforming Carbon Dioxide, to convert that supposed greenhouse pollutant into valuable hydrocarbons using the technology described best so far by Penn State University scientists Chunsan Song and Craig Grimes, can itself be synthesized from Coal.
Enclosed via the above link and following excerpt is a United States Patent issued to a Pennsylvania company, whose specialized Coal and Carbon processing and conversion expertise we have previously reported:
"United States Patent 3,779,725 - Coal Gasification
Date: December 18, 1973
Inventor: William Hegarty, et. al.
Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA
Abstract: A method for producing a synthetic pipeline gas by reacting a carbonaceous fuel in a gasifier to form a gas and thereafter subjecting the gas to additional process steps including a final cryogenic separation of high methane content gas for use as the pipeline gas."
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We've no need to reproduce the technical details. Since the title of the patent is "Coal Gasification", there seems little point in excerpting passages clearly identifying Coal to be the Abstract's "carbonaceous fuel" from which "high methane content gas" is manufactured.
Our point is made:
If we want Methane so that we can convert it directly into Gasoline, as per Nobel Laureate George Olah's, and others', US-patented inventions; or, if we want Methane to react with, to recycle, Carbon Dioxide, to manufacture hydrocarbons, as per Penn State University's Tri-reforming technology, we can make the Methane from Coal.
