PATENTS

1693. ------. [INTERNATIONAL HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS CO.] [Process and Converter for Producing Hydrocarbons With More Than One Carbon Atom in the Molecule by Catalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Monoxide.] French Patent 870,212, Mar. 5, 1942; appl. filed February 21, 1941. Chem. Zentralb., 1942, II, p. 1,086.

Gives directions for filling and emptying a catalyst furnace for the synthesis of hydrocarbons from CO and H2.