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 1471.    HOLROYD, R.  Report on Investigations at the I. G. Farbenindustrie A.-G. Works at Ludwigshafen and Oppau.  CIOS Rept. XXX-103, 1945, 69 pp., PB 23,750; Bureau of Mines Inf. Circ. 7,375, 1946, 75 pp.; TOM Reel 197.

        This report contains information on the following subjects:  (II) Synthesis-gas production, pressure operation of the water-gas shift, and the CH₄—O₂ process for synthesis gas and for C₂H₂ production (costs for the latter); (IV) MeOH and higher alcohols synthesis; (V) hydrogenation and related processes, bituminous and brown coal, bituminous and brown-coal tars, 300 and 700 atm. vapor phase.  Dehydrierung-Hoch-Druck process, isooctane and alkylate production, fuel for jet planes, costs of hydrogenation process 200,000 ton-per-year basis, methods of manufacture of catalysts for hydrogenation, and related processes; (VII) Fischer-Tropsch synthesis – Michael gas-recycle fixed-bed catalyst and the form processes; (VIII) miscellaneous chemical processes; (IX) plant operation at Heydebreck, Auschwitz, and Politz-Stettin; (X) negotiation between I. G. Farbenindustrie A.-G. and Japan, with flow sheets and data on hydrogenation of Utibuti coal; (XI) Wickel pressure vessels; (XII) development of high-pressure vessels; (XIII) H₂-resistant steels.