2241.     MEUNIER, J.  [Oxidation Reactions of Methane.]  Chim. et ind., vol. 60, No. 6, 1948, pp. 550-558; Chem. Age, vol. 60, 1949, pp. 293-296; Chem. Abs., vol. 43, 1949, p. 2923.

        Oxidation reactions or the conversion of CH₄ into synthesis gas are assuming increasing industrial importance.  These reactions, in which CH₄ is acted upon by O₂, steam, or CO₂ either alone or in binary or even ternary mixtures, are capable of being graphically represented by making use of the Gibbs triangle.  When the reactions are effected in the presence of a catalyst, as is frequently the case, chemical equilibrium is quite easily attained.  The author represents graphically the static conditions that may arise by thermal dissociation of CH₄ in the homogeneous phase as well as in the presence of C.  Some typical cases are studied, and the effect of different factors, such as temperature, pressure, relative proportions of CH₄, and other reactants, is examined.

        MEUSEL, A.  See abs. 1030, 1031.