Robert L Waldron

US Patent:

43103340, Jan 12, 1982

Filed:

Feb 15, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/012562

Inventors:

Robert D. Waldron - Houston TX

International Classification:

C07C 100
C10J 300

US Classification:

48197R

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a method for producing gaseous or liquid fuels or hydrocarbons from solid mineral sources and, more particularly, to a process for producing solid compounds, hereinafter designated fuel precursors, capable of releasing or generating flammable gases or liquids by chemical and/or physical conversion phenomena and to the process and methods to accomplish said fuel generation. The fuel precursors consist primarily of carbides formed from two or more metallic elements combined with carbon. The precursors additionally may contain minor amounts of free metal, unreacted carbon or other impurities.