PATENTS

      3005.  ------.  [RUHRCHEMIE A. G.]  [Process for Carrying Out Exothermic Reactions.]  German Patent Appl. R 114,104, R. 635, filed Sept. 24, 1942 (Cl. IV b-12 g).  FIAT Reel K-30, frames 7,610-7,616; PB 73,587; TOM Reel 177, frames 1,466-1,474: TOM Reel 36, bag 3,454, item 36, 10 pp.; Meyer transl. PC-S-II, Fischer-Tropsch, vol. 1, chap. 2, 1948, p. 3.

            Describes process and apparatus with diagrams for regulating the temperature of an exothermic catalytic reaction by means of circulating H2O under pressure between the reactor and the heat exchanger.  The catalyst is arranged in tubes around which the cooling medium circulates.