Zero emission gasification, power generation, carbon oxides management and metallurgical reduction processes, apparatus, systems, and integration thereof

An integrated process for the provision of fuel for zero-emission power generation, metallurgical reduction, and carbon oxides management to mitigate greenhouse gases, comprising:

• providing a source of each of steam, oxygen gas, and chlorine gas,
• gasifying a carbonaceous source using said steam and oxygen, and producing a gaseous hydrogen output and a gaseous carbon monoxide output;
• performing carbochlorination on an ore containing a plurality of metallic components using said chlorine gas as a reactant and said gaseous carbon monoxide as an oxygen sink, producing from said carbochlorination a heterogeneous output stream containing a plurality of metal chlorides corresponding to carbochlorination of said plurality of metallic components, and a gaseous carbon dioxide output;
• processing said heterogeneous output stream in a manifold fluidized bed reactor (MFBR) and segregating said plurality of metal chlorides into a plurality of homogeneous metal chloride output streams and a byproduct carbon dioxide stream, each homogeneous metal chloride stream corresponding to one of said plurality of metallic components, passing said plurality of homogeneous output streams into a corresponding plurality of containers, each container containing a segregated metal chloride;
• and
• managing said gaseous carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide generated by said gasifying and carbochlorination steps, comprising:
• passing said carbon monoxide output from said gasifying step to said carbochlorination step as said oxygen sink;
• converting said gaseous carbon dioxide output from said carbochlorination step into a methane pool augmentation output, an elemental carbon output, and a chemical synthesis output;
• consuming said elemental carbon output in a manufacturing process;
• and
• consuming at least a first portion of said gaseous hydrogen output in a power generator step, and consuming a second portion of said gaseous hydrogen output in a chemical synthesis process;
• wherein said integrated system is essentially free of greenhouse gas emissions;
• wherein the emissions of said power generator step are essentially free of greenhouse gasses.