U.S. Government Technical Oil Mission Fischer-Tropsch Report No.1

I.	Summary
II.	Introduction
III.	Synthesis Gas Manufacture
	A.	Manufacture from Coke by Water-Gas Reaction
	B.	Manufacture by Cracking of Coke Oven Gas
	C.	Low Temperature Carbonization Followed by Gasification
	D.	Pintsch Hillebrand Process
	E.	Schmalfeldt-Wintershall Process
	F.	Purification of Synthesis Gas
IV.	Cobalt Catalysts
	A.	General Considerations
	B.	Catalyst Manufacture
			Fig.1--Flow Scheme for Cobalt Catalyst Preparation
			Fig.2--Flow Scheme for Cobalt catalyst Reduction
	C.	Catalyst Reworking
			Fig. 3--Flow Scheme for Recovery of Cobalt and Thorium
	D.	Synthesis Procedure
		1.	General Considerations
		2.	Hoesch Benzin
		3.	Ruhrbenzin
				Fig. 4--Flow Scheme for Synthesis Cycle Used at Sterkrade
		4.	Rheinpreussen
		5.	Kocknerwerke
	E.	Catalyst Conditioning and Regeneration
	F.	Gas Recycle Operation
			Fig. 5--Flow Scheme for Recycle Project Ruhrbenzin A.G. Sterkrade
	G.	Products and By-Products
		1.	General
		2.	Olefins in Fischer-Tropsch
		3.	Diesel Oil
		4.	High-Melting Point Wax
		5.	Synthetic Lubricating Oil
	H.	Miscellaneous Activities
V.	Iron Catalyst
	A.	Sintered Iron Catalysts--Hot Gas Recycle Process
			Table 1--Product Distribution for Hot Gas Recycle Process
	B.	I. G. Experiments with Precipitated and Fused (Synthetic Ammonia-type) Catalysts
			Table 2-- I. G. Research on Processes Using Iron Catalyst Synthesis Hydrocarbons and Alcohols.
	C.	Lurgi Laboratory Research on Gas Recycle Process Using Iron Catalysts
	D.	Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute Work on Iron Catalysts
		1.	Preparation and pre-treatment
		2.	Magnetic Investigation
		3.	Synthesis
			a.	Effect of Pressure
			b.	Effect of Synthesis Gas Composition
	E.	Ruhrchemie Work on Iron Catalysts
VI.	Ruthenium Catalysts
VII.	Iso-Paraffin Synthesis
	A.	Operating Conditions
	B.	Catalysts
	C.	Synthesis Gas
	D.	Product Yields
	E.	Practical Significance of the Process
VIII.	Synthesis of Aromatic Hydrocarbons
IX.	Bibliography