2224.    ---------------.  [MAYOR, Y.]  [Synthetic Gas.  Its Application in the Chemical and Fuel Industries.]  Chaleur et ind., vol. 26, 1945, pp. 63-70; Ind. chim., vol. 32, 1945, p. 252.

        Review of actual and possible uses of synthetic gas and the modern methods of production.  Special mention is made of the water gas process by means of external heating developed by G. Szigeth and adopted in the German Didier process and the French Cie. générale de construction de fours and known as the Syngaz process.  It produces a gas suitable for the Fischer synthesis with a ratio of CO:H₂::1:2.  A French company is actually constructing a plant of this type in the south of France using the Fuveau lignites as raw material.  The gas will be used for producing MeOH and for producing fuel by the hydrogenation of raw materials of that region, such as heavy petroleum oils, shale and lignite oils, etc.