405.    BULLARD, R. H.  Société Beige Pazote, Liége; CIOS Report II-11, 1945, 6 pp.; PB 170; TOM Reel 196; Fuel Abs., vol. 3, abs. 454.

                  During the war this plant produced compressed CH₄ gas from coke-oven gas for use as an auto fuel.  MeOH is made now by catalytically cracking coke-oven gas to CO and H₂ and reducing it to MeOH.  The catalyst used and the conditions of operation were not discussed but have been patented.  The resulting gas consists of 10% N₂, 30% CO, and 60% H₂.  Production of MeOH is 20,000 liters/day.  A new water-gas plant has been installed with a capacity of 80,000 m.³/day.  Nearly all the MeOH produced is converted to CH₂O.  Before the war the company had a pilot plant for the hydrogenation of coal-tar oils producing 85-90 octane gasoline, but in 1940 it was dismantled, although in 1939 it produced 600 tons of gasoline for the Belgian army.