PATENT

3727. ----- [SZIGETH, G ]  [Water Gas for Technical Synthesis.].  Italian Patent 878,638, N. 15, 1939; in Hungary, Dec. 10, 1938.  Chem. Zentralb., 1942, I, p. 2730.

Water gas, which is practically free from CH₄ and poor in CO₂, is obtained by gasifying liquid fuels, such as mineral oils, their distillation residues, or bitumen, with an amount of steam only slightly exceeding that required for the water-gas reaction at pressures > 10 atm., preferably at 15-20, and temperatures > 1,100°, preferably 1,200°-1,300°.  The reaction temperature is attained by burning a part of the liquid fuel with O₂ in the reaction chamber.