1114.    FUEL ECONOMIST.  Hydrocarbons From Water Gas.  Vol. 9, 1934, p. 303.

        It is stated that a plant of semicommercial dimensions is to be erected at Sterkrade-Holten in the Ruhr district at a cost of several million marks, for producing liquid hydrocarbons by the Fischer-Tropsch process.  It is expected that erection of the plant will be financed by the Ruhrchemie A.-G., which has already carried out some preliminary work on the process.  The plant will have a capacity for producing about 1,000 tons of synthetic motor fuel/yr., as well as lubricating oils and rich hydrocarbon gases which it is proposed to utilize as motor fuel in compressed form in cylinders.  The process is based entirely on coal, for the gas used as raw material will be generated from coke.  It is suggested that this process will successfully compete with that of the I. G. Farbenindustrie A.-G., whose production costs are said to be about 20 pf./l. of motor fuel produced.