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 1496.    HORNE, W. A., AND JONES, J. P.  Fischer-Tropsch Unit at Lepzig Gas Works.  CIOS Rept. XXVII-68, Item 30, 1945, 10 pp. PB 294; TOM Rept. 11, TAC Rept. SnMc-5, TOM Reel 198; Gas Age, vol. 97, No. 3, 1946, pp. 28, 68; Chem. Abs., vol. 41, 1947, p. 1828.

        Installation was for the purpose of enriching city gas.  The synthesis gas, a 2:1 mixture of water gas and coke-oven gas (CO:H2=1:2), after purification, was to be passed at 1,200 mm. Hg in parallel flow into 4 units of 3 standard plate reactors operating at 185°-200° and atmospheric pressure, each reactor containing 10 m.3 of Co catalyst of 350 kg. per m.3 density.  Pressure drop through the catalyst bed was expected to be 500 mm. Hg.  Boiler condensate from the gas works was to be used as the heat-exchange medium.  The residual gas from the reactors containing about 21.3% CO, 37.5% H2, 23.6% CH4, 8.1% CO2, and 8.5% N2 was to be returned to the gas works for admixture with water and coke-oven gas and used for city gas.  The expected yield of liquid hydrocarbons was about 100 gm. per m.3 of gas consisting of about 1/3 each of benzine, medium oil, and wax.