A system involving a two-step gasification of a carbonaceous source to
produce bulk hydrogen that avoids the early formation of CO.sub.2 and
obviates the traditional water gas shift (WGSR) step, carbochlorination
of a metallic ore the production of metals found in the ore that utilizes
carbon monoxide as an oxygen sink, rather than the traditional coke, and
carbon oxides management that eliminates major impediments to
emission-neutral power generation and the reduction of major metals. The
gasification uses a rotary kiln reactor and gas-gas cyclonic separation
process to separate synthesis gas into purified hydrogen and purified
carbon monoxide. Purified bulk carbon monoxide issued in metallurgical
reduction, and purified bulk hydrogen as fuel for an emission-neutral
hydrogen combined cycle (HCC) turbine power generation station. The
carbochlorination is integrated with: a) the concurrent separation and
purification of all metal-chlorides (metchlors) and capture of CO.sub.2
for passage to the carbon oxides management system; b) the direct
reduction of metchlors to nanoscale metallurgical powders and/or to
dendritically-shaped particles, including metchlor reduction for the
ultrahigh-performance semiconductor metals of the III-V group; and, c)
the reforming of metal-oxides with improved crystalline structure from
metchlors. The carbon oxides management collects, stores and directs to
points of usage, carbon oxides that arise in various processes of the
integrated system, and captures carbon monoxide for process enhancement
and economic uses and captures carbon dioxide as a process intermediate
and for economic uses.