PATENTS

1928. ------. [KOPPERS, H., G. m. b. H.] [Synthesis Gas.] German Patent Appl. K 152,169, no date (Cl. IV b-12 i).

Production of H2 and CO through conversion of gases containing hydrocarbons, such as coke-oven, cracking, and natural gases, by means of steam and/or CO2. The gas-steam-CO2 mixture is heated in a towerlike heat accumulator in such a way that the temperature difference between the gas mixture and the heat-accumulator charge does not exceed 300°.