3934.  ----- [WILCOX, W. D.] Producing a Carbon Monoxide-Hydrogen Mixture. United States Patent 2,199,475, May 7, 1940; appl. filed July 15, 1937, Serial No. 153,722; 3 claims (Cl. 23-212). Chem. Abs., vol. 34, 1940, p. 6,049.

Process obtaining a mixture of CO and H₂ in controlled proportions by the dissociation of a hydrocarbon gas such as CH₄ consists in subjecting a mixture of the hydrocarbon gas, steam and CO₂ in controlled proportions to a dissociating temperature, effecting a partial dissociation, and thereafter adding to the product gas in a refractory-walled combustion chamber O² in a volume adequate to oxidize to CO the C in any undecomposed hydrocarbon gas, to burn to H₂O vapor any excess of H₂ in the gas and to create by the partial will assure the complete dissociation of the hydrocarbon gas.