2504.     OGAWA, T., MATUI, A., NAGAI, H., AND HIDEAWAYS, S.  Oxidation of Methane.  III.  Experiment on the Apparatus Heated by Internal Combustion.  Jour. Soc. Chem. Ind. (Japan), vol. 43, 1940, suppl., pp. 116-117; Chem. Abs., vol. 34, 1940, p. 5627.

        Mixtures containing CO and H₂ in ratio of approximately 1:2 were prepared by alternately passing, at a rate of 3 m.³ per hr., CH₄-air mixtures, which burn to produce a temperature of 1,380°, and CH₄, which absorbs heat on cracking and lowers the temperature to 1,220°, through a Ni-Cr alloy tube containing a Ni catalyst (exact composition not given) and ignited Fe balls made of equal amounts of Fe₂O₃ and MgO.  The exit gas from a typical run had the following composition:  CO₂, 3.5; O₂, 0.9; CO, 21.8; H₂, 56.5; CH₄, 16.3; and N₂, 1.0%.  The amount of conversion was increased by putting Ni-kaolin balls above the Fe balls in the tube.  In a typical run with this latter arrangement, the exit gas contained CO₂, 8.7; O₂, 0.9; CO, 27.4; H₂, 56.7; CH₄, 3.6; and N₂, 2.7%.  Gives diagram of the apparatus and tabulates results.  It is stated that the process could be used industrially.

        OGDEN, G.  See abs. 3341.