PATENTS

      1462.  ------.  [I. G. FARBENINDUSTRIE, A. G.]  [Process for the Conversion of Carbon Monoxide With Hydrogen.]  German Patent Appl. I 70,455, filed Sept. 16. 1941; OZ 12,989 (Cl. IV d-12 o).  FIAT Reel 166, frames 4,975-4,980; PB 68,755.

            In a process for converting CO with H₂ into liquid and solid O-containing organic and branched hydrocarbons in several steps, after each individual step the CO₂ is washed from the residual gas by H₂O under pressure down to about 4%, the wash H₂O being then expanded and the CO₂ content reduced to equilibrium with the washed gas.  By such a means, according to an example, the yield of O-containing organic compounds and branched hydrocarbons can be raised to 148 gm. per m.³ of raw gas and 10 gm. gasol, as compared with 139 and 6 gm., respectively, with an unregenerated wash H₂O.