The phrasing and nomenclature used by this Big Oil inventor is obtuse; so obviously clouded that the choice of arcane terminology had to have been deliberate.
We'll attempt to clear it up a bit following the excerpts. But, keep in mind that Methane is one of the two "hydrocarbyl compounds" the inventor eventually gets around to specifying by name; and, that Carbon Dioxide is a perfectly acceptable "source of oxygen" in the reaction with those hyrocarbyls that leads to "a synthesis gas comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide" which "can be used to prepare methanol (and) higher molecular weight alcohols ... as well as higher molecular weight hydrocarbons", as you will see.
United States Patent: 3755137
Last Thursday, we made report of a Coal liquefaction technology co-owned by the US Government, labeled as the "H-Coal Process: Slurry Oil System", which was developed with government funding by the company, "HRI", Hydrocarbon Research, Inc.
As we indicated in that report, HRI, though somewhat anonymous, are well-represented in the Coal liquefaction literature. And, herein we see that they went on, subsequent to their work for our government, to refine and improve their technologies for Coal liquefaction.
United States Patent: 5989457
Why a group of collaborating scientists working, variously, in Ireland and The Netherlands would assign the US rights to an invention for the recycling of Carbon Dioxide to a company in Germany, we've no idea.
But, that's what they did.
Why a group of collaborating scientists working, variously, in Ireland and The Netherlands would assign the US rights to an invention for the recycling of Carbon Dioxide to a company in Germany, we've no idea.
But, that's what they did.
Last week, we sent you information, now posted on the WV Coal Association's R&D Blog, under the self-explanatory header of "Esso/Exxon 1973 Hydrogen from Coal and Steam".
The US Patent enclosed in this dispatch is for related technology.
Also today, as it relates, we will be sending you, under separate cover, yet another United States Patent, awarded to scientists in Europe, documenting the fact that Carbon Dioxide can be recycled, and transformed into valuable liquid hydrocarbons, such as Methanol, through catalyzed reactions with Methane.
United States Patent: 4158637
The above link relates to our post of May 28, 2010, wherein we detailed the invention, documented as US Patent 3,888,750, awarded to Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Corporation, of a method to economically generate Hydrogen by the electrical decomposition of Water, noting that their invention of such a process was directly related to another patent application for the conversion of Coal into hydrocarbons.
That patent application did result in the award of a patent, to Westinghouse, as we herein document.