745. ---------------.[DRAWE, R.] [Increasing the Form Value of Fuels.] Gas- u. Wasserfach, vol. 80, 1937, pp. 806-810; Chem. Abs., vol. 32, 1938, p. 1071.

745. ---------------. [DRAWE, R.] [Increasing the Form Value of Fuels.] Gas- u. Wasserfach, vol. 80, 1937, pp. 806-810; Chem. Abs., vol. 32, 1938, p. 1071.

Continuous gasification of brown coal with O₂ and superheated steam at 20 atm. is described. The town of Zittau has been supplied during the past year with gas of calorific value 4.280 kcal. per m.³ and d. 0.448. Modificationo f the process to produce liquid fuel by the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis could be made by operating at 8-10 atm.