2642.     ---------------.  [PETROLEUM PROCESSING.]  Oil-Company Synthetic Fuels and Lubes show Good Records in Navy Tests.  Vol. 2, No. 1, 1947, pp. 37-39, 42-44.

        Included among the fuels recently tested by the U. S. Navy at Annapolis in actual performance in gasoline and high-speed diesel automotive engines, were the following synthetic fuels and lubricants:  The Texas Co. – gasoline and diesel fuel made from natural gas by the Hydrocol process; synthetic lubricating oil prepared by blending a highly refined mineral oil with an ester type synthetic oil of low viscosity.  The Union Oil Co. of California – gasoline made from Colorado shale and diesel oil manufactured from shale oil.  Standard Oil Development Co. – gasoline and diesel fuel made from natural gas in the modified Fischer-Tropsch unit at Baton Rouge employing the fluid catalyst technique.  The Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp. – synthetic lubricating oil synthesized from natural gas or other hydrocarbon gases similar to a Society Automotive Engineers 30 grade.  The chemical nature or method of manufacture is not yet disclosed.  The gasoline and diesel engines powered and lubricated by synthetic products were put through performance tests described by the Navy as highly satisfactory.  Liquid fuels made from coal by the Fischer-Tropsch process gave true similarity of performance in the experimental gas turbine to Navy-specification diesel fuel under optimum operating conditions.  In gasoline engines the 80-octane synthetic fuel was equal to or better than normal petroleum gasoline.  Further studies are to be made in the laboratory and in actual service.  Properties of each of the gasolines, diesel fuels, and lubricating oils are tabulated.