Bergius, Friedrich

Bergius, Friedrich. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, news ed., December 10, 1926, 4, 9-19 Journal of the Institute of Fuel 1934, 8, 74-79 Proceedings of the World Petroleum Congress, Volume II, 1933, pp 282-89 "Nobel Lectures, Chemistry, 1922-1941" Elsevier Publishing Company New York, 1966 pp 244-76. 

Bosch, Carl See Bergius, Friedrich Karl Rudolf Barer process. 

Bacque, Henry, 46 Beck, Christoph, 99 Beijerinck, Martinus, 15 Bergius, Friedrich, 85, 224 Bernthsen, August, 76, 80 Berthelot, Marceline, 13 Berthollet, Claude-Louis, 3, 5, 61 Birkeland, Kristian, 53 Bohn, Rene, 75 Borchardt, Philipp, 102 Borlaug, Norman, 139 Bosch, Carl, 64, 75... 

The technology for coal liquefaction to synthetic fuels is not new. In 1913 Dr. Friedrich Bergius discovered the technique of adding hydrogen to coal at a pressure of 20.3 MPa (2940 psia) and a temperature of about 723 K (842°F). Under these conditions most oxygen was hydro-... 

SKZ Suddeutsches Kunststoff-Zentrum, Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 22,... 

Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius In recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods. ... 

O], 5-20 ash, 2-10 and moisture, 1-10.) Beginning in 1910, research teams under the direction of Richard Wheeler at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, Friedrich Bergius (1884—1949) in Mannheim,... 

Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karie 1931 Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius... 

One was the hydrogenation of coal and crude oil bottoms into motor fuel as fundamentally solved by Friedrich Bergius (26), who together with Carl Bosch was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932. In 1927 the flrst industrial gasoline plant with a capacity of 100,000 tons/year see Figure 5) was erected by BASF, at that time part of the IG Farben group (27),... 

Bergius process /ber-gee-us/ A process formerly used for making hydrocarbon fuels from coal. A powdered mixture of coal, heavy oil, and a catalyst was heated with hydrogen at high pressure. The process is named for the German industrial chemist Friedrich Karl Rudolph Bergius (1884-1949). 

Historically the Fischer-Tropsch process is indeed the second technology used to produce synthetic hydrocarbons. Friedrich Bergius in... 

Stranges, Anthony. Friedrich Bergius and the Rise of the German Synthetic Fuel Industry, [sis, 75 (279), (1984), 643-667. 

Bergius process A process for making hydrocarbon mixtures (for fuels) from coal by heating powdered coal mixed with tar and iron(lll) oxide catalyst at 450°C under hydrogen at a pressure of about 200 atmospheres, in later developments of the process, the coal was suspended in liquid hydrocarbons and other catalysts were used. The process was developed by Friedrich Bergius during World War 1 as a source of motor fuel. 

In this period Fischer began to be involved with the substitute foods commission, and other commissions such as the one for fat and oils. One of the most important projects was the production of food by heating straw with caustic soda. In May 1916 about 100,000 tons of straw were used for this process. By-products were methanole and acetone, and Fischer offered them to the Bayer company. He knew, however, that the production of acetone from acetylene was already under way. Fischer also tried to find a substitute for coffee. He offered to use synthetic caffeine and mix it with sliced turnips. He made different trials and offered the result to Bayer. In 1918 he reported to the Bayer company on the production of sugar from wood. Richard Willstatter had tried to develop this process, which the Holzspiritusfabrik in Mannheim scaled up for production. But Fischer was not convinced of the efficiency of this company and, in fact, it did not run well. In the 1920s the Nobel Prize winner Friedrich Bergius improved this process and built up a new factory which remained in operation until after World War II. 

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