An extreme under statement, it is fascinating!!!!!!!
Hakan At 09:31 PM 12/9/2002 -0700, you wrote: > Very interesting > > http://www.rexresearch.com/karrick/karric%7E1.htm > >A far superior method exists to manufacture oil from coal. It is a >little-known but very attractive, proven method called Low-Temperature >Carbonization (LTC). The process was perfected by Lewis C. Karrick, an oil >shale technologist at the U.S. Bureau of Mines in the 1920s. > >LTC is a pyrolysis process that involves heating coal, shale, lignite, or >any other carbonaceous material, including garbage) to about 800o F. in the >absence of oxygen. Oil is thus distilled from the material, rather than >burning as it would if oxygen were present. > >After treatment by the Karrick process, a ton of coal will yield up to a >barrel of oil, 3000 cu. ft. of rich fuel gas, and 1500 lb. of solid >smokeless char (semi-coke). The economics of the process are such that the >oil is obtained for free! The smokeless char is an excellent substitute for >coal in utility boilers, and for coking coal in steel smelters. It yields >more heat than raw coal, and it can be converted to water gas. That gas can >be converted to oil by the Fischer -Tropsch synthesis-process. The coal gas >produced by Karrick-LTC yields more BTUs than natural gas because it >contains a greater amount of combined carbon, and there is less dilution of >the combustion gases with water vapor. The phenolic wastes are used by the >chemical industry as feedstock for working up into plastics, etc.. The >process produces no pollutants other than carbon dioxide. > >Electrical energy can be co-generated at minimal cost, in addition to coal >products. A Karrick-LTC plant with a daily capacity of 1000 tons would >produce enough steam to generate 100,000 KW-hours of electrical power at no >extra cost other than the capital investment in electrical equipment and >steam temperature losses in the turbines. > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: >http://archive.nnytech.net/ > >Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
