PATENT

3494. ----- [STANDARD OIL CO.]  Gas Separation in Hydrocarbon Synthesis.  British Patent 657,014, 1951.  Fuel Abs., 1951, abs. 4034.

Continuous process for removing CO₂ from a hydrocarbon synthesis tail gas with absorptive solutions.  The CO₂ is then removed from solution by a stripping gas, which is preferably synthesis gas or CH₄.  The effluent is then passed as feed to the reactor.