Biogenic methane production enhancement systems

Jin, Song; Bland, Alan E.; Price, Herbert S.

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Title: Biogenic methane production enhancement systems

Abstract

Systems for enhanced in-situ or perhaps even ex-situ biogenic methane production from hydrocarbon-bearing formations (1) including coal seam, oil shale, coal, coal derivates and the like are presented in embodiments such as but not limited to: increasing and perhaps even selection of microbial populations (2), amending CBM water and other microbe-containing media, diminishing sulfate reduction competition, enhancing organic matter concentrations and generation of biogenic methane (10), universally treating hydrocarbon-bearing formations, and introducing amendments (3) to hydrocarbon-bearing formations.

Inventors:: Jin, Song; Bland, Alan E.; Price, Herbert S.

Issue Date:: 2010-11-16

Research Org.:: Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1531659

Patent Number(s):: 7832475

Application Number:: 11/990,417

Assignee:: University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, WY)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B09 - DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE B09B - DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE

B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B09 - DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE B09C - RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL

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B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B09 - DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE B09B - DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE
B09B3/00 - Destroying solid waste or transforming solid waste {or contaminated solids} into something useful or harmless

B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B09 - DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE B09C - RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL
B09C1/10 - microbiologically, {biologically} or by using enzymes

C - CHEMISTRY C09 - DYES C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
C09K8/582 - characterised by the use of bacteria

C - CHEMISTRY C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY C12M - APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY
C12M21/04 - {for producing gas, e.g. biogas
C12M23/18 - {Open ponds
C12M35/08 - {Chemical, biochemical or biological means, e.g. plasma jet, co-culture}

C - CHEMISTRY C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY C12P - FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIRED CHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERS FROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE {
C12P39/00 - Processes involving microorganisms of different genera in the same process, simultaneously
C12P5/023 - {Methane}

Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
Y02E50/30 - Fuel from waste

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DOE Contract Number:: FC26-98FT40322

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2006-08-14

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 09 BIOMASS FUELS

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Process for Producing Product from Fossil Fuel patent, July 1974

Foam transport process for in-situ remediation of contaminated soils patent, April 2001

High-yield methane production process by culture of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum or any other methanogenic bacterium having the same physiological growth properties patent, November 1989

Biochemically reacting substrates in subterranean cavities patent, July 1989

Isolation of expressed genes in microorganisms patent, July 2000

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Method for the in-situ extraction of gas from coal seams patent, June 2003

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Method of sequestering carbon dioxide while producing natural gas patent-application, October 2004

Method for microbially decomposing organic compounds and method for isolating microorganism patent, July 1999

Biological production of humic acid and clean fuels from coal patent, September 1997

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Process for recovering and upgrading hydrocarbons from oil shale patent, April 1979

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Method of generating and recovering gas from subsurface formations of coal, carbonaceous shale and organic-rich shales patent-application, February 2004

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High-yield methane production process by culture of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum or any other methanogenic bacterium having the same physiological growth properties
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Isolation of expressed genes in microorganisms
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Process for stimulating microbial activity in a hydrocarbon-bearing, subterranean formation
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Extremely halophilic methanogenic archaebacteria
patent, September 1994

Method for the in-situ extraction of gas from coal seams
patent, June 2003

In situ biological beneficiation of peat in the production of hydrocarbon fuels
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Method of sequestering carbon dioxide while producing natural gas
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Process for recovering and upgrading hydrocarbons from oil shale
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Method for in situ biological conversion of coal to methane
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Generation of Hydrogen from Hydrocarbon Bearing Materials
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Method for enhancing methane production from coal seams
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