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T. O. M. Microfilm Reel 015

(Original Identification Reel 15A)

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15.           German and Hungarian Petroleum, French Refineries:

Letter summarizing aviation gasoline processes found in France after the occupation.  August 8, 1940.  Pages 1467-1564.

Memoranda of conference in Paris, July 26, 1940, discussing French refinary possibilities.  Conclusion that only the hydrogenation plant at Lieven was worth expanding with possible production of 16,000 tons per year of gasoline.  Additional production could be built better and safer within  Germany itself.  1940.  Pages 1469-76.

Report on operations and requirements of individual refinaries in Hungary.  November, 1940.  Pages 1477-93.

Letter concerning location and supply of natural gas in Hungary.  September 4, 1942.  Page 1494.

Cracking equipment in Petfurdo.  July 1, 1942.  Pages 1495-1500.

Other memoranda on the petroleum indusrty in Hungary with tables of products and some flow diagrams.  1942-43.  Pages 1501-57.

Research memorandum on somposition of Hungarian petroleum, with charts.  May, 1944.  Pages 1558-64.

16.           Shale Oil

This section contains several memoranda describing experimental work and analyses and speculating on the possibilities of commercial production.  Pros and cons are given on Page 1604 in a memo by Dr. Harold of the Leuna works.  June 23, 1944.  Pages  1565-1617.  1942-1945

17.                Analytical Methods (Miscellaneous).

This section has been abstracted elsewhere in considerable detail.  Pages 1618-2038.

Note:  After Page 2038 there is a twelve page insert of a document by Dr. Walter Kronig concerning the production of aviation gasoline and heating oil by hydrogenating coal at Belchammer at 700 atmospheres.  The memo is dated May, 1945, and states that all data and flow sheets are put down from memory but could be supplemented by his own notes left at Ludwigshafen if they still can be found. Data are based on an 8000 hour year.     May, 1945.  Pages 1-12. 

The analytical methods are then continued to page 2389.

18.           Patent Applications  (These apparently are a group of “suggestions” for patent applications.  It is not clear whether patents actually were applied for).  Pages 2390-2643.

German Patent Application OZ 13,420.  Method for evaporating foaming solutions.  Material may be passed through a tube where it is heated above the saturation temperature of the vapor and then flashed from a flash drum.  One diagram.  May 5, 1942.  Pages 2390-92.

German Patent Application OZ 13,381 and Memo number 2118.  Method for production of normal butylene hydrogen chloride is split out of normal butyl chloride under elevated pressure so that liquid hydrogen chloride may be separated from the product by fractional distillation.  May, 1942.  Pages 2393-96.

German Patent Application OZ 14,260.  Method for clarifying the reaction products of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.  Product is dissolved in a solvent and treated with absorbents.  June, 1943.  Pages 2397-404.

German Patent Application OZ 13,274.  Method of reacting gases by circulating the catalyst from reactor to regenerator and back.  July, 1942.  Pages 2405-13.

German Patent Application OZ 13,686.  Method of improving carbon monoxide-hydrogen reaction products.  Product is treated with bisulfite.  Sept. 1942.  Pages 2414-18.

German Patent Application OZ 13,916.  Production of motorfuel.  Oxygen containing products from the reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen are mixed with the products of coal hydrogenation and the mixture passed over a hydrogenation catalyst.  January, 1943.  Pages 2419-22.

German Patent Application OZ 14,248.  Method for preparation of lower boiling aromatic hydrocarbons.  Higher boiling aromatics are passed over an alumimum or magnesium catalyst containing from 0.2 to 10% molybdinum oxide.  June, 1943.  Pages 2423-25.

German Patent Application OZ 14,254.  Method for preparation of diolefins.  Substituted dioxanes are passed over a catalyst to split out water, phosphorus acids on Kieselgur may be employed.  June, 1943.  Pages 2426-29.

German Patent Application OZ 14,417.  Method for preparation of higher molecular weight alcohols.  Less than one molecular weight of a sodium alcoholate is reacted with two mols of alcohol to produce hydrogen gas and a new alcohol having twice as many carbon atoms as the starting material.  May-September, 1943.  Pages 2630-35.

German Patent Application OZ 14,450.  Method for dehydrogenating gases.  Saturated hydrocarbons are led over catalyst of the oxides of metals that are reduced with difficulty.  Conditions are such that the catalyst is substantially unchanged and therefore easily regenerated.  November, 1943.  Pages 2636-40.

German Patent Application OZ 14,810.  Method of conversion of hydrocarbons.  Knock-rating of hydrocarbons is improved by passing through a catalyst bed where the catalyst particle size becomes progressively finer.  June, 1944.  Pages 2641-43.

19.           Reports of Investigations, Lectures

Report on calculation of organic gas equilibria from basis of spectroscopic data by Dr. Hans Sachsse of the Ammonia Laboratory at Oppau with three tables and twenty graphs.  November, 1935.  Pages 2445-2504.

                1.  Hydrogen, Graphite              6.  Ethylene, Ethane

                2.  Acetylene                              7.  Methane

                3.  Diacetylene                            8.  Benzene

                4.  Vinyl-acetylene, Butadiene

                5.  Isobutane, Isobutylene                                  

Laboratory report 1509.  Report on Researches in hydrocarbon synthesis according to Franz Fischer by Dr. K. Meisenheimer of the Ammonia Laboratory at Oppau.  1.  Oxide catalysts prepared by roasting corresponding salts.  2.  Catalysts precipitated as hydroxide by BOH.  3.  Some by KHCO3.  4.  Catalysts on a supporting base.  5.  Copper containing catalysts.  6.  Preparation of paraffins.     December, 1937.  Pages 2505-20.

Report on extracted hydrogenation products of brown coal according to Unde and Pfirrmann.  Autoclave research and semiscale research.  Flow diagrams and tables.  Pages 2521-51.

Research on the separation of gaseous hydrocarbons from the gas mixture by washing with liquids.  Laboratory experiments and technical experiment at Leuna.  December, 1938.  Pages 2552-79.

Alkylbenzenes:  Preparation, properties and use as knock improver and safety motor fuel by Drs. Bahr and Kolb, Leuna Works.  The safety factor results because most of them boil above 200°C.  March, 1939.  Pages 2580-2607.

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