PATENT

3448.  SPUHLER, E.  [Production of Hydrocarbons.]  Swiss Patent 229,187, Jan. 3, 1944;appl. filed Aug. 4, 1941.  Chem. Zentralb., 1944, II, p. 916.

Limestone is decomposed with HCl, and the CO₂ produced is reduced with H₂ to CO.  The resulting mixture of CO and H₂ is converted by the Fischer-Tropsch process to hydrocarbon.