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T.O.M. REPORT NO. 8

REPORT ON STEINKOHLEN-BERGWERK RHEINPREUSSEN
MOERS-MEERBECK (HOMBERG) GERMANY

Cover Page

Title Page

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Note: All the Photographs in this report were removed, by the government, with the notation "Photograph not sufficiently clear to successfully reproduce".

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I. Target Identification (pdf 270kb) 1
II. Inspection Procedure (pdf 129kb) 3
III. Plant Layout (pdf 499kb) 5
IV. Personnel and Organization (pdf 117kb) 10
V. Coking Plant (pdf 60kb) 13
VI. Synthesis Plant (pdf 1722kb) 22
A. Water Gas Generation 22
B. Water Gas Conversion 23
C. Coke Oven Gas "Cracking" 23
D. Synthesis Gas Purification 26
E. Synthesis Catalyst 28
F. Synthesis Ovens 34
G. Synthesis Procedure 39
H. Product Recovery 51
VII. Plant Capacity (pdf 252kb) 55
VIII. Quality and Distribution of Products (pdf 1022kb) 59
A. Liquefied Gas 59
B. Grund Benzin 62
C. Diesel Fuel 62
D. Kogasin 72
E. Hard Paraffin and Gatsch 74
IX. Alcohol Plant (pdf 354kb) 76
X. Laboratory Facilities (pdf 170kb) 80
XI. Research Activities (pdf 186kb) 83
XII. Relocation of Equipment (pdf 138kb) 85
XIII. Information Regarding other Synthetic Fuel Plants (pdf 232kb) 87
XIV. Bombing Damage and Defense Measures (pdf 388kb) 91
XV. Acknowledgements (pdf 34kb) 95
Appendix A (pdf 724kb) 96
List of seized documents
Appendix B (pdf 864kb) 108
Translations of Documents
Relating to Research Activities
Appendix C (pdf 884kb)
Documents Relating to Relocating 120
Moers Equipment
Appendix D (pdf 778kb) 134
Abstracts of Patent Applications
Relating to the Fischer Tropsch process
Index to Figures
Index to Tables

PERSONNEL OF INSPECTION TEAM

W.C. Schroeder U.S. Bureau of Mines.
H.V. Atwell Petroleum Administration
for War, USA.

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