PATENT

3865 -----.[WALTER, H.]  (Verein für chemische Industrie A. G.).  [Effecting Chemical Reactions.] German Patent 474,283, Apr. 12, 1927.  Chem. Abs., vol. 23, 1929, p. 3283.

Method of German Patent 471,267 (abs.3864) is modified by supplying both the reagents to 1 side of the porous wall and supplying to the other side a gas, which may be an indifferent gas serving merely to stimulate the diffusion or may be a reagent or a mixture of the reagents or a gas intended to react with the initial reaction product.  Thus, in preparing MeOH, CO and H₂ may be passed through a porous tube surrounded with petroleum ether vapor, with which CO and/or H₂ may be mixed.  Describes apparatus for conducting the process cyclically.