RENDERING PETROLEUM OIL AS AN ENVIRONMENTALLY CARBON DIOXIDE NEUTRAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR FUELS, DERIVED PRODUCTS AND AS A REGENERATIVE CARBON SOURCE

摘要

The invention provides a method for rendering petroleum oil as an essentiallyenvironmentally carbon dioxide-neutralfuel and source material. Carbon dioxide produced from petroleum oilcombustion is captured, purified, combined withsteam and light hydrocarbon fractions, or with hydrogen, and reacted underreaction conditions sufficient to form methanol and/ordimethyl ether, which can be used as fuel or feedstock for derived synthetichydrocarbons and products.