98.     ATWELL, H. V., POWELL, A. R. AND STORCH, H. H.  United States Government Technical Oil Mission Fischer-Tropsch Report 1.  TOM Rept. 5, July 1945, 66 pp.; TAC Rept. SnMC-1; PB Rept. 2051, 1945, 45 pp.

                This is a preliminary summary report, and much of the information contained is copied directly from the preliminary CIOS reports prepared by United States and British Investigators from personal interrogations of German industrial officials or from captured German documents.  Issue of a supplementary report is planned when the final CIOS reports are completed and when all pertinent German documents have been examined and studied.  The report includes synthesis-gas manufacture; detailed information with flow sheets on the preparation, reduction, reworking, and regeneration of Co catalysts and the manner of conducting the synthesis operation at Hoesch Benzin, Sterkrade-Holten.  Moers-Meerbeck, and Castrop-Rauxel; the gas-recycle operation of Lurgi and Ruhrchemie; the products and byproducts from Fischer-Tropsch operations; the experimental work with sintered, precipitated, and fused Fe catalysts by the I. G. Farbenindustrie A.G., Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut, and Ruhrchemie A.G.; the Ru catalyst; the isoparaffin synthesis; and synthesis of aromatic hydrocarbons at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut.

            ATWOOD, K.  See abs. 2804.