2778. ---------. (M. W. Kellogg Co.). Synthesis of Liquid Hydrocarbons From Gas Mixtures Containing Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen. United States Patent 2,250,421, July 22, 1941; appl. filed May 7, 1938, Serial No. 206,602; 15 claims (Cl. 260-449). Chem. Abs., vol. 35, 1941, p. 7155.

Patents

2778. ---------. (M. W. Kellogg Co.). Synthesis of Liquid Hydrocarbons From Gas Mixtures Containing Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen. United States Patent 2,250,421, July 22, 1941; appl. filed May 7, 1938, Serial No. 206,602; 15 claims (Cl. 260-449). Chem. Abs., vol. 35, 1941, p. 7155.

Describes arrangement of apparatus and a method that may involve passing CO over Ni, Co, or Fe to form the metal carbonyl, introducing the carbonyl into a body of inert liquid, such as a hydrocarbon oil, maintained at a temperature (suitably about 200º) high enough to decompose the metal carbonyl, introducing enough to decompose the metal carbonyl, introducing a mixture of CO and H₂ into the inert liquid in the presence of the finely divided metal formed from the carbonyl, and recovering the liquid hydrocarbons formed by fractionation of the products withdrawn.