PATENTS

       51.       ------.  [ATWELL, H. V.]  (Process Management Co.).  Gasoline From Gaseous Hydrocarbons.  United States Patents 2,178,824, Nov. 7, 1939: appl. Filed Jan. 6, 1937, Serial No. 119,178: 7 claims (Cl. 196-9).  Chem. Abs., Vol. 34, 1940, p. 1474.

Describes arrangement of apparatus and a method of producing motor fuel of high antiknock value, which involves causing CO and H₂ to react over a catalyst such as CO and ThO₂ on kieselguhr at a temperature and pressure such that liquid hydrocarbons in the gasoline boiling range are formed, separating normally gaseous hydrocarbon constituents of the reaction products containing more than 1 C atom and heating them to effect substantial cracking, mixing with the resultant cracked product normally liquid constituents from the 1^st-mentioned reaction mixture, and heating the resulting mixture to effect conjoint conversion of normally liquid and polymerization of normally gaseous hydrocarbons in it.