Herein, we see that, subsequent to their work in the 1950's, some of which we have documented for you, Texaco continued to develop their technologies for efficiently producing mixtures of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide, to be used as synthesis gas in the production of hydrocarbon fuels, by reacting Water or Steam with hot Coal.
We keep our excerpts brief, since there is actually nothing new for us, relative to many of our earlier reports, to be found herein. Schematics which accompany the text clearly show Coal and Water being fed into Texaco's apparatus, with Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide, in proportions suitable for hydrocarbon synthesis, as Texaco so specifies in their full Disclosure, being excreted from the other end.
There is, though, one important point to be made, as we emphasize following brief excerpts from:
"United States Patent 3,544,291 - Coal Gasification Process
Date: December, 1970
Inventor: Warren Schlinger, et. al., CA
Assignee: Texaco, Incorporated, NY
Abstract: A process for gasification of solid fuel by partial oxidation to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen ... in which pulverized solid fuel, such as coal ... is supplied to the reactor as a slurry with water.
This invention relates to a process for the production of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, i.e., synthesis gas, from solid carbonaceous fuels ... .
(The) solid fuel, in fine particle form, is suspended in steam and introduced into the reaction zone ... to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen as the principle products of reaction.
The resulting product gas or synthesis gas comprises carbon monoxide and hydrogen and contains minor amounts of carbon dioxide.
The term 'synthesis gas' (means) mixtures of carbon monoxide and hydrogen suitable ... for synthesis of hydrocarbons and alcohols."
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The important point is, that, as such "mixtures of carbon monoxide and hydrogen" are being generated from Coal and Water, only "minor amounts of carbon dioxide" are co-produced.
And, it seems clear, that, as confirmed herein forty years ago by our United States Government's own expert patent examiners, the raw materials "for synthesis of hydrocarbons and alcohols" can, in fact, be cleanly and efficiently produced via the "gasification of ... coal ... (mixed) with water".
