A major application of 650C-950C LENR molten salt reactors is the Molten Salt Oxidation Process (MSOP). It applies directly to the topic at hand: synfuels.
MSOP equipment and technology can function to reclaim metal in elemental form from municipal waste while reducing the hydrocarbon waste component of that waste to liquid fuels. More broadly, any carbon based component of the non-biologic waste stream can also be transformed into liquid fuel. Such wastes as tires, municipal trash, plastics, both building material waste from natural disasters and old cars can be reclaimed without material separation, and land file mining. For example, landfill mining and reclamation (LFMR) is a process whereby solid wastes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste> which have previously been landfilled <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill> are excavated and reprocessed. The function of landfill mining is to reduce or eliminate the amount of landfill mass encapsulated within the closed landfill and/or to detoxify hazardous materials and/or to recycle the waste. In the process, mining recovers valuable recyclable materials, a combustible fraction with can be converted to liquid fuel, soil, and landfill space reclamation. The combustible fraction is useful for the production of liquid fuels. The overall appearance of the landfill mining procedure is a sequence of processing machines laid out in a functional conveyor system. The operating principle is to excavate and process the old trash without separation to remove nonorganic metals as residuals. The concept of landfill mining was introduced as early as 1953 at the Hiriya <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiriya> landfill operated by the Dan Region Authority next to the city of Tel Aviv<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv>, Israel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel>. Waste contains many resources with high value, the most notable of which are non-ferrous metals such as aluminum cans <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_can> and scrap metal<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrap_metal>. The concentration of aluminum in many landfills is higher than the concentration of aluminum in bauxite <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauxite>from which the metal is derived. LERN high process heat will open up many new efficiencies that are currently too costly and/or too dangerous. Cheers On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Probably not, but maybe they should be... > > ... since the frakcers are multiplying like rabbits these days; and the > most > profitable thing to do with all that methane is probably to convert it to > gasoline at the well-head. > > Synfuels International operates a pilot plant in Robertson County, Texas > which is apparently running now 24/7 on natural gas to demonstrate their > synfuel technologies for potential commercial scale up. It is not an > awesome > factory, but at least it is not vaporware. > > http://www.synfuels.com/Plant.html > > They claim to produce a cleaner synthetic gasoline from natural gas at half > the present wholesale cost, using a proprietary "Non-Fischer Tropsch" > Portfolio of Technologies ... > > Essentially, because it can be run on a small scale - the technology would > turn any "Fracker" into a gasoline wholesaler, and BIG OIL cannot come > close > to their cost. That situation will lower prices, since the Cartel cannot > control supply/demand. > > Not exactly what we want to see as a long-term energy solution, or even > short term, but perhaps it is the lesser of two evils from the consumers > POV > ... >
