PROCESS FOR MAKING LIQUID FUELS FROM COAL
Yesterday, we reported on Consolidation Coal Company's US Patent 3,503,724, issued to Consol in 1970, for "Producing Mixtures of Methane, Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen", hydrocarbon synthesis gas, in other words, from Coal.
Herein, via the enclosed link and attached file, Consol reveals yet another way they devised, in 1970, to synthesize hydrocarbons from Coal.
Comment follows excerpts from the plainly-titled:
"United States Patent 3,523,886 - Making Liquid Fuels from Coal
Date: August, 1970
Inventor: Everett Gorin, et. al., Pittsburgh
Assignee: The United States of America and Consolidation Coal Company
Abstract: (A) process for making liquid fuel from coal by solvent extraction wherein (coal) extract is catalytically hydrocracked to produce the desired liquid fuel ... .
This invention relates to an improvement in a solvent extraction process for making liquid fuels from coal.
Suitable solvents for the coal ... are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (which) are derived from (the) process.
Claims: (A) solvent extraction process for making liquid fuels from coal."
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First, yes, as indicated by the assignment of rights, We the People paid Consol to develop this Coal liquefaction technology, and, we, supposedly, own a piece of it.
Why we haven't subsequently used it to prevent Persian Gulf oil wars and Mexican Gulf oil spills is a question that begs to be answered, but:
As with other Coal conversion technologies we've documented for you, primary Coal oils or tars, the "polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (which) are derived from (the) process" can be used as solvents in Coal liquefaction processes that are intended to make "liquid fuels from coal".
And, the lead inventor is our oft-cited Everett Gorin, who went on from Consol, as we've documented, to invent more advanced Coal conversion processes for New York state's Socony Oil Company, which itself went on to be acquired by Mobil Oil, and so on and so forth.
In any case, we have herein further confirmation, almost half a century old, that Coal, through dissolution by primary and long-known Coal oils, can be efficiently converted into liquid fuels.
We can make liquid fuels from Coal, and we don't need anything but Coal to do so.
