2734.     ---------------.  [POWELL, A. R.]  German Developments in the Production of Synthetic Liquid Fuels.  Coal Technol., vol. 1, No. 3, August 1946, 6 pp.; Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Tech. Pub. 2096.

        Summary of the more important information obtained by the Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee in its investigation of German synthetic liquid fuels activities.  A brief description of each of the 2 general processes for synthetic fuel production – the Bergius and the Fischer-Tropsch – with special mention of the more important new developments.  Of the peak production of oil fuel of about 1,200,000 metric tons per month, about 29% was synthetic liquid fuel, and, of the 347,000 tons per month of synthetic fuel, 14% was made by the Fischer synthesis and 86?% by hydrogenation of coal and tar.  The general impression gained by the Technical Oil Mission was that the engineering design of the plants and the operating techniques were neither economical nor efficient and, by American standards, should have produced a much greater quantity of oil than they did.