USDOE Coal Conversion Encyclopedia

NETL: Gasification Gasifipedia

 

As many of our earlier reports have documented, our United States Government, as embodied in the Department of Energy, the Patent and Trademark Office and the Department of Defense, and in other of it's offices and bureaus, actually knows quite a lot about the very real, very practical technologies which exist that would enable us to begin converting our abundant Coal, and allied, Carbon-recycling resources, into the liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons we are now crippled by reliance on the international petroleum industry, and it's alliance of OPEC governments and Big Oil corporations, for the supply of.

 

Herein, we see that our National Energy Technology Laboratories have compiled a somewhat extensive, though, as evidenced by the many records we've provided to the West Virginia Coal Association, still incomplete, file on the Carbon conversion technologies that we do have available to us, and which we should have long ago begun reducing to wide, and public, practice.

 

They drolly refer to their publicly-available body of knowledge as the "Gasification Gasifipedia", and the link we've enclosed above should take you to it.

 

As excerpts, following, we are including only a part of the table of contents.

 

Here are a few advance links, from the following excerpts, that might be of special interest: Coal-to-Liquids ; Coal-to-Synthetic Natural Gas and Hydrogen; Coal-to-Chemicals . 

 

And, again, though it is extensive, it is incomplete and does not, as we have so far been able to determine, address some of the more direct Carbon-recycling technologies such as the Carbon Dioxide conversion potentials of the Sabatier process, or the bi-reforming and tri-reforming technologies, such as patented, as we've documented, by Standard Oil, and others; and, as being further developed by, among others, Penn State University.

 

Nor does US Government's "Gasifipedia" seem to address all of the direct Coal liquefaction technologies, such as the West Virginia Process developed by WVU; and, again, variants of which have been patented by the petroleum industry, and for which, as we long ago documented, international patents have been applied for by entities in China.

 

Those disclaimers aside, the US Government's available body of knowledge concerning Coal conversion technology is still impressive, as should be evident in our excerpts from the above link, trusting that link and all those following transmit with functionality intact:

 

""Gasifipedia provides the public with both introductory and in-depth resources to better understand gasification technology, which is anticipated to be the technology of choice for future near-zero emissions, coal-based plants that produce/co-produce power, fuels, and/or chemicals.

 

Gasifipedia is comprised of 6 main sections:

 

Introduction to Gasification
Provides an overview of the gasification process, how the technology has been utilized in the past, and what motivational forces have caused recent interest in the technology.