2540.     OSTERMEIER, L.  [Use of the Residual Gas From the Fischer-Tropsch Gasoline-Synthesis Process as City Gas.]  Gas u. Wasserfach, vol. 81, 1938, pp. 52-57; British Chem. Abs., 1938, B, p. 243; Chem. Abs., vol. 32, 1938, p. 3126.

        High purity of the residual gas from the Fischer-Tropsch process is an important factor in considering its use for city gas, but this is partly balanced by its high content of inerts, especially CO₂ and high specific gravity.  This gas may be converted into city gas by washing out CO₂, preferably with a solution containing a mixture of K and Na carbonate or by detoxification (removal of CO) before removing CO₂.  In either case the density and inert content will be reduced to permissible limits, and a mixture of treated and untreated gas may be used, with or without other normal manufactured gases.  The combination of synthesis-gas manufacture with the use of the residual gas would seem to be favorable for large gas works in Germany.