In recent days, we've sent you information concerning two United States Patents: "Patent US2605174 - Synthesis Gas Manufacture; July, 1952; Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company" and "2,347,682 -
Hydrocarbon synthesis; May, 1944; Assignee: Standard Oil Company of Indiana".
Both of those documents detail and confirm that the petroleum industry and, at least as it is embodied in the Patent Office, our own United States Government knew, more than half a century ago, that Carbon Dioxide, as is emitted, relative to natural sources, such as volcanism, in a very small way by our varied and productive uses of Coal, is a valuable raw material resource.
We can make liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels out of it.
In further confirmation of such valuable knowledge being held hostage for such a long time by two major centers of power and knowledge, one we don't trust at all and one that we're supposed to, we submit, from the year 1955, additional confirmation of the fact that we can reclaim Carbon Dioxide, and then productively utilize it in the synthesis of hydrocarbons.
Comment follows excerpts from the enclosed link to and attached file of:
"United States Patent 2,719,130 - Synthesis Gas Manufacture
Date: September, 1955
Inventor: S. Grant Stewart, OK
Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
Abstract: This invention relates to synthesis of hydrocarbons and oxygen-containing materials from hydrogen and carbon monoxide. In one aspect this invention relates to the preparation of carbon monoxide-hydrogen feed gas for a synthesis step of a process of the Fischer-Tropsch type.
In another aspect this invention relates to the preparation of a hydrocarbon-oxygen stock to be utilized in the production of carbon monoxide-hydrogen feed stocks.
In a process of the Fischer-Tropsch type, carbon monoxide is hydrogenated to produce hydrocarbons and oxygen derivatives of hydrocarbons (i.e., alcohols such as Methanol - JtM).
The process is generally considered to consist of two steps, the synthesis gas preparation step, and the synthesis step proper. In the first named step, carbon monoxide and hydrogen are produced by the partial oxidation of a carbon-containing material such as ... coal ... with an oxidizing agent such as steam (and/or) carbon dioxide ... .
(Some other examples of synthesis gas preparation reactions include:)
1. 2CH4 + O2 = 2CO + 4H2
2. CH4 + H2O = CO + 3H2
3. CH4 + CO2 = 2CO + 2H2
In order to adjust the mole ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide in the synthesis gas product, either steam or carbon dioxide, or both, may be added to the hydrocarbon-oxygen feed."
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We conclude our excerpts here to emphasize that, although Phillips posits that hydrocarbon synthesis gas can be made by the "partial oxidation of ... coal ... with ... steam (and/or) carbon dioxide", they also specifically point out that Methane, "CH4", too, can be reacted with Carbon Dioxide, and with Steam, as in the equations they provide, as above, for illustration, and thereby made to form a very similar product.
The Disclosure further explains, in confirmation of other references we've earlier submitted, that some of the reactions involved are exothermic; and, heat generated by those reactions can be recycled within the total system to help drive other, endothermic, reactions and thereby achieve greater economy.
In sum, Phillips reveals, with official US Government confirmation of the fact, that an adjustable-ratio hydrocarbon synthesis gas can be produced either by reacting "coal ... with steam (and/or) carbon dioxide" or by reacting Methane with CO2 and Steam; and, that such syngas can then be catalytically condensed into liquid "hydrocarbons" and "oxygen derivatives of hydrocarbons", via a subsequent "process of the Fischer-Tropsch type".
And, the revelation was made, recorded and officially published by our own United States Government more than half a century ago.