3721. ----- [SWEETSER, S. B.] (Standard Oil Development Co.). Synthesizing Hydrocarbons. United States Patent 2,471,914, May 31, 1949; appl. filed Feb. 14, 1945, Serial No. 577,822; 7 claims (Cl. 196-52).

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3721. ----- [SWEETSER, S. B.] (Standard Oil Development Co.). Synthesizing Hydrocarbons. United States Patent 2,471,914, May 31, 1949; appl. filed Feb. 14, 1945, Serial No. 577,822; 7 claims (Cl. 196-52).

Product from the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis boiling in the gasoline range is aromatized, and the product boiling above the gasoline range is catalytically cracked or destructively hydrogenated. The gas-oil fraction is destructively hydrogenated. The H2 formed during the aromatization is used in the destructive hydrogenation operation. 16 United States patents cited.

See abs. 2166