345.    BRENNSTOFF-CHEMIE.  [Japanese Seven-Year Plan.]  Wirtschaftsteil, vol. 18, 1937, p. 39; Coal Carbonisation, vol. 3, 1937, p. 115.

                  Gives particulars of program under which motor-fuel requirements of Japan are to be met, mainly from domestic sources, by 1943.  It is estimated that the requirements of light fuels, mainly gasoline, will then amount to about 545 million gal. per yr., 335 million gal. of which is to be supplied by home production.  About 630 million gal. of heavy oils will be needed, and about half of this amount is to be produced from domestic materials.  Plan is based on producing 132 million gal. of light fuels and 93 million gal. of heavy oil from coal and 86 million gal. of light oils and 46 million gal. of heavy oils by synthesis.  A German firm has been entrusted with the planning of a plant for the synthesis of 33,000 tons of gasoline per yr. by the Fischer-Tropsch process.  Low-temperature carbonization of coal is to yield about 9 million gal. of light motor fuels and 112 million gal. of heavy oils, requiring about 9 million tons of coal.  The remainder of the liquid-fuel output is to be in the form of potato spirit and the refined products of domestic oils.  It is estimated that the capital investment will be about 750 million yen apart from 127 million yen to be spent on increasing the coal output.