Solvation process for carbonaceous fuels
We've documented, via multiple sources, that Pittsburgh's former Gulf Oil Corporation, and their subsidiary, P&M Mining, of Kansas and Colorado, developed, with tax-funded US Government support, a number of technologies directly related to the improvement of Coal liquefaction technologies.
Herein, it's disclosed that such Government support of Gulf's Coal conversion research and development was confirmed and commemorated by the issuance of yet another United States Patent for Coal conversion technology, wherein the rights are assigned to both Gulf Oil Corporation and the United States of America.
Comment follows excerpts from:
"United States Patent 3,341,447 - Solvation Process for Carbonaceous Fuels
Date: September, 1967
Inventors: Willard Bull, et. al., Kansas
Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior, and Gulf Oil Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, joint owners.
Abstract: This invention relates to the solubilizing of carbonaceous fuels, and more particularly to the upgrading of carbonaceous fuels by a solution-process into low-ash, low-oxygen, low-sulfur fuels.
This invention resulted from work done under contract 14-01-0001-275 with the Office of Coal Research.
Processes for the extraction of carbonaceous fuels, such as bituminous and sub-bituminous coals, lignite, peat and the like ... are known. ... (The) present invention has for one of it's objects to provide a novel process for essentially complete solubilization of carbonaceous fuels in solvent."
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We close our excerpts here because the full patent description is worded so obscurely and confusingly - we would contend deliberately so - that it becomes unclear what the genuine purpose and goal of the disclosed process is.
Basically, as we interpret it, it is an economical technology for dissolving Coal in an hydrogenated solvent itself made from Coal, with end products being a "liquid stream and associated gases", as specified within the Disclosure.
Along the way, provisions are made to recover "hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide" and to recycle them back into other steps of the process, which seems to help the conversion along.
In any case, we have here, again, yet another Coal conversion process, developed by a petroleum company with our US Government's tax dollar sponsorship; a Coal liquefaction technology that we, all of us regular tax-paying US citizens, paid to have developed; but, one which none of us has yet been privileged even to know about, much less to use for our common national benefit.
