3080.     ---------------.  [SCHENCK, -----.]  [Cobalt-Nickel Catalysts.]  FIAT Reel K-21, frames 1119-1121, July 22, 1941, PB 70,212; TOM Reel 288.

        When ThO₂ was used as activator and under normal precipitating conditions, 35-50% of the Co was replaced successfully by Ni.  The catalysts thus obtained showed fairly normal activity and satisfactory yields but a considerably lowered durability.  In medium-pressure synthesis, the same catalysts, because of low activity, showed diminished Co output and correspondingly lower yields.  The abundant formation of CH₄ in case of synthesis gas can be avoided by operating with water gas.  Paraffin is formed only in insignificant amounts.  Increased addition of Mn has no considerable influence on this.  The boiling point is virtually the same with synthesis gas and with water gas.