3666.     WEST, H. L.  Major Developments in Synthetic Lubricants and Additives in Germany.  Jour. Inst. Petrol., vol. 34, 1948, pp. 774-820; BIOS Final Rept. 1611, February 1948, 128 pp.; PB 93,668.

        By the end of the war, Germany had a well-developed synthetic-lubricating oil industry, which was rapidly expanding.  On a quantity basis the products obtained from natural petroleum resources predominated, but from a quality standpoint the synthetic production was of more importance.  The total production of lubricants in January 1944 was 70,000 tons per mo., of which about 12% were synthetic oils. The I. G. Farbenindustrie was obtaining 1,250 tons per mo. from the polymerization of C₂H₄ with AlCl₃, while they, together with Rhenania Ossag, were producing 2,100 tons from olefins obtained from the cracking of petroleum and Fischer-Tropsch waxes.  In addition to these developments, Ruhrchemie was producing 1,500 tons from olefins obtained from Fischer-Tropsch gas oils and sweater oil from the manufacture of wax derived from the process.  Rheinpreussen was obtaining 300 tons by a method analogous to that for Paraflow production with chlorinated Kogasin from the Fischer-Tropsch process as the main raw material.  In addition, there were about 3,000 tons of lubricating oils being produced by brown-coal hydrogenation.  A very promising development, which had not come into production, was the use of the esters of fatty acids, particularly sebacic and adipic acids.  Extensive bibliography.

        ----------.  See abs. 873, 874, 875, 876, 877, 878, 3729.