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      499.  ------.  [DIRECTIE VAN DE STAATSMIJNEN IN LIMBURG.]  [Gasifying Carbonaceous Material.]  Netherlands Patent 38,486.  Aug. 15, 1951. Chem. Abs., vol. 46, 1952, p. 5824.

            Powdered coal or other carbonaceous material is gasified in two reactors in series, a smaller one being a cyclone or the like, in which the exothermic combustion reactions occur at a temperature above the melting point of the slag, and a bigger one, which may contain filling material and in which chiefly the endothermic reactions are effected at a lower temperature.  Gives structural and operative details.