PATENTS

     1666.   ------.  [INTERNATIONAL HYDROCARBON SYNTHESIS CO.] [Hydrocarbon Synthesis.]  Italian Patent 381,315, Mar. 14, 1946; in Germany, April 29, 1939.  Chem. Zentralb., 1942, I, p. 2736. 

            In the synthesis of hydrocarbons from CO and H₂ the heat of reaction is removed from the reactor by means of a cooling liquid flowing in a closed circuit.  Outside the reactor the warm liquid gives up its heat indirectly to H₂O contained in the tubes of a boiler.