Hydrocarbon conversion

Herein is yet more evidence that we have, as a nation, known officially since at least as far back as WWII that Carbon Dioxide can be recycled into Gasoline.

The Standard Oil process disclosed by the US Patent we're sending along in this dispatch describes, in essence, variations of both "bi-reforming" and "tri-reforming" technologies, which we have explained several times previously; and, in which Carbon Dioxide is reacted with Methane, and/or with Steam, and made thereby to form a hydrocarbon synthesis gas which can, via one of several known processes, be catalytically condensed into liquid hydrocarbons.

Patent US2339106

We have cited the Axis Coal conversion scientists named in this WWII-era patent many times previously.

Ernst Donath, especially, we have identified as being a key figure in Germany's extensive Coal liquefaction industry before and during WWII, who went on to work, after the war, in exile in the US Virgin Islands, perhaps in partnership with his son, to develop even more advanced Coal conversion technologies, all the rights to which were assigned, through the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, home at the time of the US Bureau of Mines, to the United States of America, up into the 1970's.

Mathias Pier is another of the German Coal conversion scientists we have previously identified for you as having developed key technologies for the gasification and liquefaction of Coal prior to the war.

http://www.ispc-conference.org/ispcproc/papers/685.pdf

We've earlier documented that the somewhat less-than-friendly nation of Iran has been at work on "reforming" technologies, similar to those being developed, as we've many times documented, by scientists such as Chunsan Song and Craig Grimes, and others, at Penn State University, and elsewhere, wherein Carbon Dioxide is reacted with Methane, CH4, and the two made thereby to form a synthesis gas suitable for catalytic condensation into liquid hydrocarbons.

An example would be: Iran Converts CO2 & Methane to Syngas | Research & Development | News;

"Production of Syngas By CO2 Reforming; Alieh Khalesi, et. al.; Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran; Abstract: This paper deals with ... alkali metals ... as catalysts for the dry reforming of methane to produce syngas. ...  methane conversions in excess of 90% ... have been achieved."

United States Patent: 4687570

Upon reflection, we think the report we make herein might be of some special significance.

Aside from a few obvious points, which we don't hesitate to belabor, the Disclosure of this invention reveals truly significant improvements in the economics of Coal conversion.

It deserves serious study and consideration.

As we recently confirmed, in: Penn State Solar CO2 + H2O = Methane | Research & Development | News; technologies conceptually similar to the 1912 Nobel-winning Sabatier process, wherein Carbon Dioxide can be recycled, and converted into Methane, CH4, exist.

And, such technologies are, in some places, being further developed and improved.