651. CUMMINGS, A. D. Oil From Coal: How Germany Synthesized Petrol for War. Discovery, vol. 9, February 1948, pp. 54-57; Fuel Abs., No. 3062, 1948. Two processes, hydrogenation and the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, are outlined. The Pintsch-Hillebrand, Wintershall-Schmafeldt, and Winkler systems for utilizing brown coal in the synthesis are described, and the compositions of the gas mixtures from the 3 are compared. |