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                Detailed account of the operation of a large Fischer-Tropsch plant from 1939 until October 1944.  The layout of the plant is described.  includes plans and photographs.  The synthesis gas consisted of a mixture of water gas treated catalytically to increase the H₂:CO ratio, and coke-oven gas cracked in the presence of steam.  it was purified by passing it over Luxmasse and a catalyst consisting largely of Fe₂O₃ and Na₂CO₃.  Special attention was paid to the composition of all catalysts used at this plant, analyses being checked with information obtained from the Ruhrchemie A.-G.  Extracts have been made from record books and data sheets to show plant performance at different stages of the process.  The effect of catalyst regeneration is discussed, and an account is given of methods, production figures, distribution of products to associated companies, manufacture and distribution of synthetic Diesel fuel, and recovery of hard paraffin wax.  An outline of the research program is pieced together from miscellaneous documents and reproduced.  Gives list of abstracts of patent applications filed up to July 1939 by the various companies collaborating in the Fischer-Tropsch process.