Production of gas suitable for the synthesis of hydrocarbons from carbon monoxide and hydrogen

We have so far, over the years, presented you with a number of reports documenting that the technology and industrial knowledge needed to convert our abundant Coal into gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbon fuels was being established, or was at least being recorded and claimed, by a company in one of the hearts of US Coal Country at the same time it was being developed and reduced to large-scale industrial operation in one of the sadly infamous practitioners of the art, Germany.

http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/content/59/supplement/S231.full.pdf

In observance of the Easter holiday, we presume, and in the throes of the current shale gas mania that seems to be sweeping through US Coal Country, just as the Dutch were once similarly intoxicated by tulips, and others, at other times and in other places have, as described in:

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia;

http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/factsheets/project/FE0004498.pdf

First, we remind you of a very recent dispatch, now accessible on the West Virginia Coal Association's web site via the link:

West Virginia Coal Association | Columbia University Converts CO2 to Ethylene | Research & Development;

which concerned:

"US Patent Application 20130048506 - Electrodes for High Efficiency Aqueous Reduction of CO2; 2013; Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; Abstract: An electrolytic cell system to convert carbon dioxide to a hydrocarbon ... wherein the hydrocarbon (produced) is ethylene".

United States Patent: 7820022

 

We've previously documented, as, for one example, in our report of:

 

West Virginia Coal Association | GE and USDOE Harvest CO2 for Hydrocarbon Synthesis | Research & Development; concerning, in part: "United States Patent Application 20070149392 - Reactor for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Conversion; 2007; Inventors: Anthony Yu-Chung Ku, et. al., NY; Correspondence Address (and presumed Assignee of Rights): General Electric Company, NY; Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multifunctional catalyst system (that) facilitates the reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide while the second catalyst initiates or facilitates the conversion of carbon monoxide to an organic compound. Disclosed herein is a method comprising reducing carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide in a first reaction catalyzed by a first catalyst; and reacting carbon monoxide with hydrogen in a second reaction catalyzed by second catalyst; wherein ... the second catalyst initiates or facilitates the conversion of carbon monoxide to an organic compound ... (and) wherein the organic compound is an ... alcohol (and/or) paraffins, olefins, oxygenates, or the like, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing organic molecules";