In a brief series of recent reports, we've begun to document the use of various metal oxides as Oxygen donors in Coal gasification processes.
The use of such "Oxygen donors" to effect the partial oxidation of Coal, or, as we will demonstrate in other reports to follow, any Carbon source, is a far more effective way to accomplish the gasification since it enables the attainment of several important goals.
PRODUCTION OF SYNTHESIS GAS RICH IN CARBON MONOXIDE
Since, as we recently reported in:
2011 Efficient Extraction of Flue Gas CO2 | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 7,927, 572 - Purifying Carbon Dioxide and Producing Acid; 2011; Praxair Technology, Inc.; Abstract: Carbon dioxide is purified by processes employing NOx-rich sulfuric acid that can be formed by removal of SO2 from the carbon dioxide (and) wherein said gaseous feed stream of carbon dioxide is formed by combustion"; and:
United States Patent Application: 0060051274
This will, we caution, be an extended and unfortunately cluttered presentation. We are herein making further report of the Carbon Dioxide capture and recycling achievements made by a team of scientists about whom we have previously written, as in:
US Navy and Columbia University Recycle Atmospheric CO2 | Research & Development; which actually centered on:
We preface this dispatch, concerning the efficient capture and separation of Carbon Dioxide from the flue gas of industrial processes that combust hydrocarbon fuel, especially Coal, by attempting to address the question of:
When technologies such as disclosed, for example, in our reports of:
Efficient Capture of Atmospheric CO2 | Research & Development; concerning: "United States Patent 7,993,432 - Air Collector ... for Capturing Ambient CO2; 2011; Kilimanjaro Energy, Inc.; Abstract: An apparatus for capture of CO2 from the atmosphere";
No matter how we convert our abundant Coal into more versatile hydrocarbons, no matter how completely we utilize it's carbon content, there will, just as when we combust Coal for power generation, remain behind an inorganic mineral residue.
That residue is most often referred to and known most commonly as "fly ash", which most think of as settling out of exhaust gases, but larger and heavier agglomerations, "slag" and "clinker", are also formed.