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        Description of the application of the Fischer-Tropsch process.  Pine charcoal was gasified with steam giving 1 m.³ water gas from 300-400 gm. charcoal.  This was treated in an electrically heated converter consisting of an upright Cu cylinder with 7 catalyst tubes 20 x 300 mm.  Efficient catalysts were Co-Fe-Zn (2.5:1:2) and Co-Fe-Zn-Cu (2.5:1:1:1) precipitated from the nitrates with soda, washed with water, dried and reduced at 350° with H₂.  In this apparatus, with 3,000 cc. of catalyst and a temperature 270°-290°, 800 l. of water gas produced in 21 hr. 55 gm. of liquid and solid hydrocarbons (70 gm. per m.³ water gas).  The benzine boiled 90% below 180°, the oil 70% below 250°.