PATENT

3900. WENZEL, ---, AND WINTZER, ---. (I. G. Farbenindustrie A. G.). [Removing the Heat of Conversion.] German Patent Appl I 71,916, OZ 13,345, filed Mar. 14, 1942(Cl. IV d-12 o). FIAT Reel 172, frame 289; PB 25,616; TOM Reel 19, item 140, frames 1,640-1,646; Meyer Transl. PC-S-II, Fischer-Tropsch, vol. 2, 1948, chap. 99, p. 74.

Cooling of the converter by the faster removal of the excess heat of conversion by methods other than by H2O –cooled tubes in the catalyst bed or by wetting the catalyst bed is discussed. The methods suggested depend mainly on variations in gas circulation or in H2O cooling.