677.    DE BRUIJN, H., WESTRIK, R., AND VAN LOON, W.  Dutch Report on Visit to I. G. Farbenindustrie, A.-G., Ludwigshafen and Oppau and Raschig Werke Mundesheim BIOS Miscell. Rept. 104, no date, 126 pp.; PB 96,352.

      Some of the subjects reported are:  I.  Conversion of CO at 25 atm. pressure, the catalyst Fe₂O₃-Cr₂O₃-Na₂SO₄; conversion of CH₄, catalyst Ni on magnesite.  II.  Conversion of CH₄ to synthesis gas for CH₃OH.  III.  Synthesis of CH₃OH, procedure, converter, catalyst, temperature, coke-oven gas – the raw material.  IV.  Manufacture of formaldehyde from CH₃OH.  V.  Preparation of C₂H₂ from CH₄ by partial combustion and from CaC₂.  VI.  Preparation of C₂H₄ from C₂H₆ by partial oxidation and by dehydrogenation.  VII.  Synthetic phenol by Raschig process.

     DECARRIÉRE, E.  See abs. 62.