We some time ago, in multiple reports, documented the development, by Pittsburgh's former Gulf Oil Corporation, and their Pittsburg, Kansas, and Colorado, P&M Mining subsidiary, all since absorbed into the Chevron conglomerate, of multiple technologies wherein Coal could be converted into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels.
Herein we submit one of Gulf Oil's Coal conversion technologies which we might earlier have missed.
In it, we find confirmation of many of our earlier reports:
All of the energy and all of the Hydrogen needed to convert Coal into liquid hydrocarbon fuels can be generated and produced as integral functions of a total Coal conversion process that requires, as raw materials, nothing but Water and Coal.
The full Disclosure is lengthy and complicated, and it begs reading by genuine experts who can summarize and clearly deliver it's full import for and to the rest of us.
Summary comment follows brief excerpts from:
"United States Patent 4,159,236 - Combining Coal Liquefaction and Gasification
Date: June, 1979
Inventor: Bruce Schmid, Denver
Assignee: Gulf Oil Corporation, Pittsburgh
Abstract: The prior art has disclosed a combination coal liquefaction-gasification process wherein ... the gasification zone (produces) the exact hydrogen requirement of the (total) process.
The present invention provides ... improvement in the ... efficiency of the combination process.
This invention relates to a process wherein coal liquefaction and ... gasification operations are combined synergistically to provide an elevated ... efficiency.
The liquefaction process produces for sale a significant quantity of both liquid fuels and hydrocarbon gases."
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In brief summary: Pittsburgh's Gulf Oil developed a process wherein Coal could be converted into "both liquid fuels and hydrocarbon gases"; and, as a full study of the Patent reveals, Coal and Water provide all of the raw materials, including Hydrogen, and all of the energy required to accomplish the conversion.
