New Jersey Converts More CO2 into "Valuable Products"

United States Patent Application: 0120132537

We return herein to the Carbon Dioxide recycling exploits of a band of accomplished scientists, a group with roots in Princeton University, who have been hard at work in the state of New Jersey to establish not just the technological foundations of a fuels and chemicals manufacturing industry based on CO2 as the primary raw material, but, to reduce those technological foundations to actual commercial, industrial practice.

In several previous reports, including:

West Virginia Coal Association | Princeton Recycles CO2 with US Government Support | Research & Development; concerning:

"US Patent Application 20100187123A1 - Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Organic Products; 2010; Inventors: Andrew B. Bocarsly and Emily Barton Cole, NJ; This invention was made with United States government support from Natural Science Foundation Grant No. CHE-0606475. The United States Government has certain rights in this invention. A method of converting of carbon dioxide to provide at least one product, comprising reducing the carbon dioxide in a divided electrochemical cell ... wherein the reducing is electrochemical or photoelectrochemical ... (and) where the at least one product is methanol, isopropanol, formic acid, formaldehyde, glyoxal or ethanol"; and:

WVU Affirms Coal Liquefaction Viability for US Congress

AMERICAN   ENERGY INITIATIVE; COMMITTEE: HOUSE ENERGY AND COMMERCE; SUBCOMMITTEE: ENERGY   AND POWER - Power Engineering

The day before yesterday, Tuesday, July 10, a key committee of the United States Congress got to hear, straight from what we could and should see as a sacred font of primordial Coal Country knowledge, West Virginia University, the truth about converting our abundant domestic Coal into liquid hydrocarbons, that is, into substitutes for the products derived from natural petroleum which we now impoverish our nation and debase our core values to import from the often inimical alien nations of OPEC:

"(The) industrial deployment of technologies like coal gasification and Fischer-Tropsch, or F-T, processes can produce super clean synthetic gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels that are almost sulfur free, have almost no  carcinogenic compounds compared to petroleum, produce fewer particulate emissions, and outperform petroleum fuels."

Exxon Carbon Monoxide + Water = Hydrocarbons

United States Patent: 4269784

We've documented numerous times that Carbon Dioxide can be converted into the more reactive and, thus, more desirable, Carbon Monoxide through the seemingly-obvious expedient of reacting CO2 with hot Coal; the reaction proceeding according to the formula: CO2 + C = 2CO.

Just to again document that fact, it is confirmed, for just one example, in our report of:

Fly Ash and Desulfurization Waste Make "Premium" Cement

United States Patent Application: 0060201395

We have many times documented the fact, that, not only can Coal Ash and Flue Gas Desulfurization, FGD, wastes be utilized, actually in various ways, both in the making of Portland-type Cement, PC, and, as a reactive aggregate, in the making of Portland-type Cement Concrete, PCC, but, that the resulting Concrete is typically stronger and more resistant to chemical corrosion than conventional PCC.

A few of our previous reports demonstrating some of that can be accessed via:

West Virginia Coal Association | Pittsburgh Converts Coal Ash and Flue Gas into Cement | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 5,766,339 - Producing Cement from a Flue Gas Desulfurization Waste; 1998; Assignee: Dravo Lime Company, Pittsburgh; Abstract: Cement is produced by forming a moist mixture of a flue gas desulfurization process waste product containing 80-95 percent by weight calcium sulfite hemihydrate and 5-20 percent by weight calcium sulfate hemihydrate, aluminum, iron, silica and carbon (and) wherein said source of aluminum and iron comprises fly ash"; and:

China Coal and CO2-Recycling Biomass to Liquid Fuel

United States Patent Application: 0100186291

We have, of course, beaten to death the fact that China, in partnership with a number of notable western partners, including, as just one quick example,:

West Virginia Coal Association | GE Converts China Coal to Methanol | Research & Development; concerning: "One of the World’s Largest Coal-to-Olefins Gasification Units Starts Up in China; August 12, 2010; The gasification unit at one of the world’s largest coal-to-olefins projects successfully started up at the China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co. Ltd.’s project in Baotou, Inner Mongolia. The gasification unit uses advanced coal gasification technology provided by GE (NYSE:GE)";

General Electric, have embarked on a national program of industrial development targeted on converting their abundant Coal into liquid hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals.