2649.        ---------------.  [PETROLEUM TIMES.]  Chemical Derivatives of Coal and Home Refining of Petroleum.  Vol. 49, 1945, p. 1078.

            Excerpts from a report of a nonparty technical committee of 4 fuel technologists to draw up a policy for fuel utilization.  Encouragement should be given to the extension of the chemical utilization of raw materials derived from coal.  In the United States a synthetic organic chemical industry is being developed, which has no parallel in England, and the latter country has clearly lagged behind other nations in its researches on chemicals derived from petroleum and coal.  It is urged that a Fischer-Tropsch plant should be erected for intensive study on the same lines as the coal-hydrogenation plant erected by the Imperial Chemical Institute.  The British Coal Utilization and Research Association is starting work on chemical utilization problems, and its work should be encouraged.