542.    ---------------.  [CHEMICAL TRADE JOURNAL AND CHEMICAL ENGINEER.]  Hydrocol’s New Hydrocarbon Synthesis Plant Approaching Completion.  Vol. 124, 1949, p. 689.

                  Initial production is expected before the end of the year.  Coproducts of the new plant, in excess of 300,000 lb. of water-soluble oxygenated compounds, are to be separated and refined by Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. to yield methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, n-butyl, and n-amyl alcohols; acetaldehyde, propionaldehyde, and butyraldehyde; acetone, methyl-ethyl ketone, methyl-propyl ketone, and methyl-butyl ketone; and acetic propionic, and butyric acids.  These products will be distributed by United States Industrial Chemicals, Inc.