We submit this information in further support of our contention, our thesis, that coal and certain types of biomass can be converted into liquid fuels, at the same time, in the same, appropriately-designed and specified processing facility.
To belabor the point, and the word, combining coal and biomass is synergistic. Though not specified in this report, syngas yields of coal and biomass combined are higher than either pyrolyzed alone, as we've elsewhere documented. And, the biomass offsets the carbon released when the resulting liquid fuel is combusted.
The excerpt, from Iowa State University:
(Please note mention both of syngas, and our old Coal-to-Liquid friends, Fischer and Tropsch)
"Biomass to Liquids (BTL) processes are being designed based on the thermo-chemical platform for converting biomass to biofuels. In an indirect liquefaction process, synthesis gas (syn-gas, CO+H2) is first produced via gasification of solid biomass or liquid bio-oil produced by the fast pyrolysis of biomass. Syn-gas can be converted to synthetic gasoline, jet-fuel or diesel using Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of hydrocarbons or synthetic alcohols, such as ethanol, through different catalytic processes. These gas to liquids (GTL) technologies, previously utilizing coal or low-cost, remote natural gas as feedstock for liquid fuels production can be adapted for the conversion of bio-mass to liquids (BTL)."6-