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Honeywell Recycles CO2 with Algae

http://www.uop.com/pr/releases/DOE%20Hopewell%20Grant%20PR%20-%20FINAL.pdf 
 
We have, in our posts to the WV Coal Association, previously documented the carbon conversion expertise of UOP-Honeywell Corporation; the use of algae to capture Carbon Dioxide emissions; the conversion of oil derived from algae into jet fuel; and, multiple test flights made by airliners using such algae-based jet fuel.
 
Although, subsequent to other of our research, we tend now to favor technologies that directly, chemically capture and convert effluent Carbon Dioxide into both Methane and, via subsequent reforming with the Methane so produced, higher hydrocarbons; it's important, we think, to emphasize that multiple options do exist to make productive, profitable use of Coal's valuable CO2 by-product.  
 

DOW Chemcial Refines Coal Liquids

United States Patent: 4180456 
 
In reporting the Coal conversion technology revealed by the United States patent enclosed herein, we must first remind you of the old Union Carbide Corporation's development and operation of a Coal liquefaction factory, as we documented in a number of our earlier reports, near Charleston, WV.
 
More information on Carbide's WV Coal conversion activities can be found in the West Virginia State Archives, Division of Culture and History's "Union Carbide Collection", as accessible via the following link:
 
Union Carbide Corporation Collection

Ireland Reforms CO2 with CH4

http://www.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/preprint%20archive/Files/49_2_Philadelphia_10-04_1085.pdf 
 
Herein, via a report of research from Ireland, we confirm and support our earlier reports of developments,  accomplished by Penn State University, and others, whereby Carbon Dioxide can be reacted with Methane, which can itself be synthesized, by Sabatier technology, from Carbon Dioxide; or, by hydro-, or steam-, gasification technology, from Coal; to synthesize higher hydrocarbons of utility and value.
 

Standard Oil 1948 Coal to Motor Fuel

Patent US2676908
 
All the way back in 1948, the then Standard Oil of New Jersey acknowledged the US Bureau of Mines development, by their scientist Lewis Karrick, whose innovations in Coal conversion technology we have documented for you, of the Low Temperature Carbonization, "LTC", technology for Coal conversion, by hijacking it via the enclosed United States Patent, available through the above link and attached document.
 
Note that the patent, although awarded in 1954, was applied for in 1948; not long after everyone interested in the oil business, subsequent to WWII, should have become well-aware of Germany's and Japan's successes in fueling vast armies with liquid fuels made from a wide range of Coals.
 

Japan Wins US CO2 Recyling Patent

United States Patent: 7332147
 
We have reported on multiple technologies for the productive and profitable use of Carbon Dioxide, some of them entailing it's use to synthesize higher hydrocarbon, including liquid fuels, and even as a supplement to some primary processes of indirect Coal-to-Liquid conversion.
 
The enclosed technology, recently patented in the United States, as documented herein, seems to be a version of that latter use for Carbon Dioxide; or, rather, a refinement of that use; whereby, as we have earlier documented from other sources to be feasible and practical, steam can be employed both as an agent of hydrogenation, and, as a co-reactant that helps to prevent carbon deposition on, and thereby extends the life of, the catalyst used for reforming Carbon Dioxide with simple hydrocarbons, such as Methane, to synthesize higher hydrocarbons of greater value and utility.