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PSU CO2 Recycling Patent Application

Patent US20090317882
 
We have, in multiple submissions, documented the "Tri-reforming" technology espoused by Chunsan Song, and others, at Penn State University, wherein Carbon Dioxide is reacted, recycled, with Methane to synthesize higher hydrocarbons suitable for refining into liquid fuels.
 
We have also documented that, not only can the Methane needed for reforming CO2 be manufactured via the steam-, or hydro-, gasification of Coal, it can also, as in the Sabatier process, be itself synthesized from Carbon Dioxide.
 

Korea Receives US CO2 Recycling Patent

United States Patent: 7410717
 
First, keep in mind that "fuel cells" can be any size we want to make them.
 
In the case of this US Patent, awarded recently to Korean scientists, think of them more as industrial reactors, rather than as compact devices proposed in popular press science magazines as power sources for automobiles and space craft.
 

Consol Cracks Coal

http://www.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/preprint%20archive/Files/12_3_ATLANTIC%20CITY_09-68_0195.pdf


We believe the essence of the attached technical report from Consol, accessible via the embedded link, might well have been originally reported, as we documented in a recent submission, as "A Synthetic Fuels Process", which was delivered at the 8th World Petroleum Conference, 1971, in Moscow.
 
No further comment on what should, by now, to all, be the absurdity of that venue, with it's implications for the further dissemination of useful knowledge related to Coal liquefaction science in the United States of America.

Consol Presents CoalTL in Russia

A Synthetic Fuels Process
 
We have, several times, documented the Coal-to-liquid conversion technologies developed by Consolidation Coal, Consol, now owned by Conoco, and their scientist who seemed to lead the effort, Everett Gorin.
 
In fact, we have documented the Zinc Halide process for Coal liquefaction in a US Patent now held by Conoco, wherein Gorin is named as the inventor.
 
Herein, via the above link and following excerpt, we further document Consol's, and Gorin's, Coal Liquefaction expertise, in a technical report delivered, if not predictably, at least unsurprisingly, at a venue almost guaranteed to be missed by the US mainstream press.
 

More Patented CO2 & H2o = CH4

United States Patent: 5128003
 
 
Given the Assignee, below, by whom we suppose the Inventors to be employed, we'll presume this to be one of the inventions developed, and patented by proxy, for the United States Department of Defense, in their program, which we have earlier documented, to develop technologies whereby Carbon Dioxide and water, extracted from the ocean, can be processed together aboard special ships to synthesize liquid fuels for the fleet at sea.
 
That might sound far-fetched, but the program is quite real, and is thoroughly documented in the WV Coal Association's R&D Blog archives.