1814.  ------. [KEITH, P. C.] (Hydrocarbon Research, Inc.). Hydrocarbon Synthesis. United States Patent 2,558,760, July 3, 1951; appl. filed Aug. 24, 1946, Serial No. 692,874; 7 claims (Cl. 260-449.6).

C entrained in the synthesis gas may be wetted and washed out by means of H₂O formed in the C oxide-H₂ synthesis reaction and condensed from the effluents of the reactor. In the process, the synthesis gas, before its passage into the reactor, is passed countercurrently, in scrubbing relationship, through a descending stream of the condensed aqueous solution of oxygenated hydrocarbons formed during the synthesis. 7 Unites States patents and 1 literature ref. cited.