508.    -------------.  [CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS.]  Blaw-Knox Fuel Synthesis.  Vol. 28, No. 5, 1950, p. 331.

                  Blaw-Knox Co. has announced the formation of a chemicals- and fuels-synthesis department.  The new activity will deal with the conversion of fuels into chemicals and will be based initially on the Fischer-Tropsch synthetic fuels process and on related processes for making synthesis gas.  An agreement has been made with Ruhrchemie and Lurgi for licenses and access to all process information developed by these German firms.  The new department will adapt processes, develop pilot plants, design equipment, provide engineering, and built plants for converting plentiful fuels into more valuable chemical materials and upgraded forms of hydrocarbons.