http://www.co2captureandstorage.info/networks/loopingpdf/15%20septiembre/C8.pdf
We have previously submitted several reports of concurrent and collaborative research in Switzerland and Israel, concerning the development of efficient technology to collect and convert Carbon Dioxide into hydrocarbons of commercial utility.
Herein, we present further documentation of those Swiss and Israeli efforts; further confirmation of that fact that Carbon Dioxide, as is emitted in a small way - relative both to natural sources, such as volcanoes, and to human sources, such as natural gas or oil refineries and cement kilns, of emission - from our productive uses of Coal, can be efficiently converted, via reactions with Methane, into the valuable liquid fuel, Methanol.
And, as we have documented, Methanol can serve, via several established and commercialized technologies, as a raw material for further direct conversion into Gasoline - or, into raw materials for the manufacture of plastics, where the Carbon Dioxide would be chemically, permanently, and, far more importantly, productively and profitably, sequestered..
Comment follows excerpts from the enclosed link to, and attached file of:
"Flue-Gas Treatment by Methane Tri-Reforming
September, 2009
M. Halmann (1.) and A. Steinfeld (2.)
1. Weitzmann Institute of Science, Israel; and, 2. Swiss Institute of Technology, Switzerland
"By simultaneous catalytic reforming of CH4 (Methane) with steam and with CO2, which are both strongly endothermic reactions, ... and also with oxygen by an exothermic reaction ... an overall thermo-neutral (autothermal) process of tri-reforming was achieved.
From the flue gas of just one 500MWe coal-fired power plant, methanol production would supply 7.6% of the 2008 world production capacity of methanol."
