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Fischer-Tropsch process

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fischer-Tropsch process , method for the synthesis of hydrocarbons and other aliphatic compounds. Synthesis gas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, is reacted in the presence of an iron or cobalt catalyst; much heat is evolved, and such products as methane, synthetic gasoline and waxes, and alcohols are made, with water or carbon dioxide produced as a byproduct. An important source of the hydrogen-carbon monoxide gas mixture is the gasification of coal (see water gas ). The process is named after F. Fischer and H. Tropsch, the German coal researchers who discovered it in 1923. ... Read more
Mülheim an der Ruhr
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... electrical goods, and chemicals. At the city's noted institute for coal research, the Fischer-Tropsch process for coal liquification and the Ziegler process for the production of polyethylene plastics were discovered. Mülheim was chartered in ... Read more
water gas
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... of the use of water (steam) in its preparation. This process involves treating white-hot hard coal or coke with a ... a fuel in the making of steel and in other industrial processes, e.g., the Fischer-Tropsch process . Read more

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