Silverado Gold Mines Ltd. (fka SLGLF)

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SILVERADO GREEN FUEL
Silverado Green Fuel Inc, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Silverado Gold Mines Ltd.

Silverado, through Dr. Warrack Willson, head of the Company's fuel division, has been developing technology designed to convert low-rank coal, representing half of the U.S.'s coal reserves, into low rank coal water fuel (LRCWF), through a process designed to avoid releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, without particle emissions, and without the release of toxic by-products.

LRCWF is intended to be used to power oil-fired power plants, or as feedstock for further processing to produce:
Transportation fuels (jet, diesel, gasoline)
Agricultural compounds (fertilizers, synthetic petrochemical feedstocks, ammonia)
Industrial products (oils, lubricants)
Consumer products (plastics, packaging)
Pure hydrogen to power fuel cell automobiles, and generate electricity
While North America is the company's primary focus, global opportunities are on the Company's radar. Silverado is exploring potential joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and investment. An Ecological Friendly Utility for the 21st Century

H2 Power : The Creation Of Hydrogen From LRCWF To Generate Electricity And Fuel Future Cars Without Releasing Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide, Heavy Metals, Sulphur Or Particulate Matter To The Environment

LRCWF is designed to utilize technology developed by private industry as part of the US Department of Energy's Clean Coal Technology Program and Clean Coal Power Initiative, and to meet stringent air, water, and solid by-product standards promulgated by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

LRCWF may be used to create H2 (hydrogen), which could yield water when combusted in a gas turbine or used in a fuel cell, and, as such, could avoid the release of green house gases. CO2 (carbon dioxide) produced while making hydrogen from coal, air, and steam may be captured and sold to oil companies where it could potentially be used in oil recovery.
The coal conversion and power generation process is designed to include the following unit operations. When bulk low-rank coal enters into the LRCWF process, the environmental drawbacks associated with the use of "dirty coal," that is dust generation and tendency towards spontaneous combustion, may be eliminated. Low-rank coal would be crushed, ground, and mixed with water, most of which is recycled from the process, then hydrothermally treated and formulated into a concentrated stable liquid fuel that is intended to be an alternative to oil.

LRCWF may then be fed at elevated pressures to an advanced high temperature slagging gasifier. During gasification the carbon and water in LRCWF may be reacted with oxygen to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The temperature would be maintained above the melting point of the ash (mineral matter) in the coal, which would be removed as molten slag. The slag would be recovered as an inert glassy frit that perhaps may be sold for use in roadbeds and or high-strength concrete. Small quantities of impurities such as sulphur and nitrous oxides and particulates from coal ash may be removed from the hot product gas by commercial processes. In the next unit operation, synthesis gas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen gases) would be reacted with steam via the water/gas shift phase reaction to generate additional hydrogen. In the shift phase reaction, carbon monoxide would react with additional steam to produce more hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide may be separated from the hydrogen fuel via commercial processes and perhaps may be sold for use in enhanced oil recovery processes. The carbon dioxide may potentially be used to repressurize oil fields with the intent to increase oil production from US oil fields.

In the last step hydrogen gas would be the resultant fuel and may be used in an advanced gas turbine where it would be burned in air to generate power and water. It may also be used to generate power in advanced fuel cells. In either case, the intention is that power would be generated without the production of any greenhouse gases that could contribute to climate change. In addition to generating power cleanly from low-rank coal, this process is intended to help decrease dependence on imported oil, not only by the power generation, but by increasing production from indigenous oil resources by means of repressurizing oil fields with carbon dioxide.