where can i find info on turning coal into oil?

Answer 1

http://forums.hypography.com/chemistry/2013-turn-coal-into-oil.html

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0418_060418_coal_energy.html

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5356683

or just type in "coal into oil" in google

Answer 2

Coal liquifaction processes have been around a long time. They have been used for production by the Germans during WW II (Fischer Tropsch process) and by South Africa (SASOL). While many processes have been demonstrated in pilot plants, the low price of crude oil has put commerical development of synfuels mostly on hold since 1985.

A good overview of the industry is provided below. Some of the processes you can search on are SRC (Solvent Refined Coal) and H-Coal.

Answer 3

It is called the Fischer-Tropsch process. It is WW2 technology.
The Germans used it to make fuel to keep their war machine moving. The process involves adding hydrogen to carbon to make fuel. Currently it is much cheaper to drill for oil and to buy oil than to build Coal-to-Gasoline plants. SASOL of South Africa built these plants because they feared an oil embargo when they had an aparteid govt. In North Dakota they have a Coal-to-Methane plant that makes money hand over fist. As long as there is coal, we will NEVER run out of oil.

Answer 4

Read history in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Germany ran its army on synthetic fuel, derived from coal. One plant was brought over to the US and installed near Hannibal MO in 1946. The oil companies shut it down. Thanks Amaco.

Answer 5

Syntroleum.com SYNM
Rentech.com RTK
Sasol SSL
For starters. Not great performers as stocks go because the burning or any carbon based fuel produces CO2. The good part about the fuels they produce is there are no additional particulates, just CO2.

Answer 6

See the source.