PATENT

3545. ----- [STANDARD OIL CO.]  [Refining of  Hydrocarbon Oils From the Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis.]  French Patent 921,299, May, 1947; appl. filed Feb. 5, 1946.  Chem. Zentralb., 1947, II, p. 764.

Oils are fractionated into gasoline b. up to 216° and gas oil b. 226°-343°.  The gasoline is reformed over oxidizing catalysts in presence of H2 496°-510° and at 10.5-28 atm. pressure..  The reformed gasoline is then fractionated into 3 fractions b., respectively, 54°-99°, 99°-121°, and above 121°, which are mixed with the gasoline fraction from the cracked product of the gas oil 440°-496°.