879.    FARISH, W. S.  Manufacture of Gasoline and Oil From Coal.  Synthetic Liquid Fuels Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, U. S. Senate, 78th Cong., 1st Sess., on S. 1243, 1944, pp. 51-59.

      Survey of the economics of the Bergius coal hydrogenation and the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis processes for the production of gasoline.  The paper summarizes the raw material and overall steel requirements, as well as investments and operating costs.  Figures are on the basis of 1942 estimate.

  Cost estimates on synthetic liquid fuel processes if operated 

in the United States in 1942

  

Approx. plant investment per bbl. gasoline per day

Approx. tons steel per bbl. gasoline per day

Approx. cost of gasoline per gal. without depreciation

Approx. gasoline total cost, including depreciation

1.   High pressure coal hydrogenation

  

$12,800.00

  

14.1

  

$0.159

  

$0.226

2.   Fischer process, Europe design, from coal

  

7,600.00

  

8.9

  

.147

  

.192

3.   Fischer process, Europe design, natural gas at $0.05 per 1,000 cu. ft.

  

  

4,750.00

    

 

6.5

  

  

0.6

  

  

0.88

4.   Modern high-pressure hydrogenation of petroleum

  

1,150.00

  

1.4

  

0.48

  

0.55

5.   Modern oil refinery crude at $1.20 per bbl. thermal cracking

  

700.00

  

.7

  

0.51

  

0.53

6.   Modern oil refinery crude at $2.00 per bbl. thermal cracking

 

700.00

  

.7

  

0.83

  

0.85

                  Items 1 and 2 are for plants of 2,950 bbl. and 3,960 bbl. production capacity/day, respectively.  For larger plants, that is, 30,000 tons, the costs would be slightly lower, probably about $0.15-$0.16/gal. and $0.155/gal., respectively.