1236.    GREAT BRITAIN COMMITTEE OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF OIL FROM COAL.  Falmouth Report on the Production of Oil From Coal.  H. M. Sta. Office, London, 1938, 71 pp.; Coal Carbonisation, vol. 4, 1938, pp. 46-48.

       Committee’s report on the Fischer-Tropsch process has little value, as the evidence obtained is conflicting.  The general, though indefinite, conclusion to be drawn therefrom is that the capital cost and economics of a Fischer-Tropsch plant would be similar to that of a coal-hydrogenation plant.  The committee recommends “the establishment of a plant to work the Fischer process, and designed for the production of not less than 20,000-30,000 tons of primary products per annum.”  This is the commercially economic size of plant for the operation of this process.