United States Patent Application: 0100264061
As in: Sasol's Synthetic Jet Fuel to Gain Worldwide Approval by August | Research & Development | News; wherein is contained the fascinating statement: "The world will soon be flying on coal"; we have earlier documented the development, by South Africa Synthetic Oil Limited, i.e., Sasol, of technologies which would enable the conversion of our abundant Coal into any liquid hydrocarbon we now derive from petroleum, including all sorts of fully-certified aviation fuels.
Herein, we see that Sasol has applied for a United States Patent on their process and technology for synthesizing such high-performance jet fuel, out of abundant Coal.
Comment follows brief excerpts from the initial link to:
"US Patent Application 20100264061A1 - Synthetic Aviation Fuel
Date: October, 2010
Inventor: Carl Louis Viljoen, et. al., South Africa
Assignee: Sasol Technology Ltd., Johannesburg
Abstract: The invention relates to a Fischer-Tropsch derived aviation fuel, which fuel is used either as a fuel on its own or as a component in an aviation fuel blend ... .
Claims: A Fischer-Tropsch derived aviation fuel ... .
Background and Field: This invention relates to an improved Fischer-Tropsch derived aviation fuel ... .
Distillate fuel derived from the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process is highly paraffinic and has excellent burning properties and very low sulfur. This makes Fischer-Tropsch products ideally suited for fuel use where environmental concerns are important. Clean distillates with low emission characteristics that contain low sulfur, nitrogen or aromatics such as distillates from the Fischer-Tropsch process will in the future be in great demand as aviation fuel or in blending aviation fuel.
The FT process is used industrially to convert synthesis gas, which may be derived from coal ... into hydrocarbons ranging from methane to species with molecular masses above 1400."
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In sum, to be clear:
We can use "the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process" to make "products ideally suited for fuel use where environmental concerns are important".
And, as the full disclosure, although it is concerned primarily with aviation fuel, also reveals, we can, cleanly and efficiently, make any hydrocarbon - - anything, in fact, from "methane" up to what we must presume to be heavy lubricating greases, i.e., those "hydrocarbons ... with molecular masses above 1400" - - out of a "synthesis gas, which may be derived from coal".