2658. PIER, M., AND DONATH, E. (Alien Property Custodian). Hydrocarbons From Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide. United States Patent 2,318,626, May 11, 1943; appl. filed Sept. 24, 1938, Serial No. 231,612, in Germany Sept. 30, 1937; 2 claims (Cl. 260-449). Chem. Abs., vol. 37, 1943, p. 6112.

Process is employed that involves passing a gas mixture containing < 2 parts by volume of H₂ for each part by volume of CO into the inlet end of a reaction chamber, adding further H₂ to the reaction mixture at spaced points along the reaction chamber in such amounts that there are < 2 parts by volume of H₂ for each part by volume of CO in every part of the reaction chamber, the total volume of H₂ supplied to the chamber being substantially 2 times the volume of CO supplied to it.