German coal hydrogenation plant

Table 4. German Coal Hydrogenation Plants 1927-45. (Source Compiled from information in High-Pressure...

Table 2 1927-1945 German coal hydrogenation plants. Source Compiled from information in Report on the petroleum and synthetic oil industry of Germany (London, 1947), and High-pressure hydrogenation at Ludwigshafen-Heideberg, FIAT, Final Report no. 1317.

Markovits, Braun, Donovan, Sandaker. "Special Equipment in the Coal-Hydrogenation Demonstration Plant " Grunder, L.J. "Report on the Hydrogenation Demonstration Plant Division, Louisiana, Missouri, unpublished report of March 13, 1946. Reports on the Bureau s Louisiana, Mo. plant are part of the German Document Retrieval Projects Collection, Center for Energy and Mineral Resources, Texas A M University, College Station, Texas, 77843 Kastens, Merritt L. Hirst, L.L. Chaffee, C.C. Ind, and Eng, Chem. 1949, 41, pp 870-85. 

A total of sixteen German scientists worked at the Louisiana, Missouri plant, five in coal hydrogenation, two in Fischer-Tropsch, eight in oil shale, one in acetylene production. 

Despite its smaller size and lower production, the 9 F-T plants contributed 455,000-576,000 metric tons of coal-derived oil per year during the war years 12-15 percent of Germany s total liquid fuel requirement. The historical analysis that follows examines the T-T s invention and industrial development during several decades of German social, political, and economic unrest and complements the historical literature on Germany s coal hydrogenation process. The... 

C H S. Tupholme, Gasoline from coal Formal opening of the Billingham hydrogenation plant, Chemical and Engineering News. News Edition, 13 (10 November 1935), 414-415. The mention of foreign (German) instruments is of interest see Stuart Bennett s contribution to this volume. 

The German COORETEC CO2 Reduction Technologies) concept favours coal gasification with precombustion capture to introduce COj capture into coal fired power plants. The same capture process is suited to produce hydrogen from coal in an environmentally-friendly way. This technical option is outlined in the recently drawn up national vision on hydrogen technologies. The first projects in this area are to be funded in the near future. 

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