Patent US3375175
We have reported to quite some extent on the US Government-sponsored development of the "COED" technology for Coal-to-liquid conversion, by the FMC corporation, with the participation of ARCO, at a pilot plant in New Jersey.
As we indicated in our most previous dispatch on that topic, development of the COED Coal liquefaction process resulted in issuance of a United States Patent for that process to FMC.
http://www.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/preprint%20archive/Files/16_1_BOSTON_04-72_0026.pdf
We have made several reports concerning the FMC company, and their operation of a Coal-to-Liquid conversion facility, under contract to the US government, in New Jersey.
Herein, via the link and following excerpt, is a fuller exposition of their "COED" process for the conversion of Coal into hydrocarbon liquids. Or, rather, it is a discussion of how amenable Coal liquids, once produced, are to conventional petroleum refining techniques.
Climate Research | Columbia News
The enclosed release, from Columbia University, affirms in general other reports we've cited, wherein Carbon Dioxide can be directly utilized, in addition to being indirectly recycled via natural botanical processes, in the conversion of some biomass into liquid fuels.
We perceive there to be a few errors in their over-generalizations, and we believe their scope is too broad.
http://www.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/preprint%20archive/Files/40_1_ANAHEIM_04-95_0077.pdf
We have previously documented for you West Virginia University's achievements in the technology of direct Coal liquefaction, including not only their close cooperation with China, in that nation's ambitious plans to develop an extensive Coal liquefaction industry, but their research into ways in which other, unappreciated, resources, such as used auto tires and some scrapped plastics, can be combined with Coal in an appropriately-designed Coal liquefaction process.
We have also documented, from various sources, that some renewable, CO2-recycling, biologically-based resources, primarily waste cellulose in the form of saw dust, can also have the potential to be co-processed with Coal in the manufacture of liquid fuels.
Ni-based catalyst for tri-reforming of methane and its catalysis application for the production of syngas - Patent application
Subsequent to our earlier reports of Carbon Dioxide recycling developments in Korea, we herein learn that Korean scientists have applied for a United States Patent on the Tri-reforming conversion of Carbon Dioxide and Methane into "syngas" - synthesis gas, which, as you should, from our posts, by now know can then be catalyzed, via Fischer-Tropsch and related techniques, such as the Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis process, to synthesize liquid hydrocarbon fuels.