SYNTHETIC PETROL
BULK PRODUCTION To produce synthetic petrol by a process of hydrogenation a plant is being completed in New Jersey (U.S.A.), and will begin operations next month. The plant will have a capacity of 5,000 barrels a day, and will work on a process recently developed by Dr. Frederick Bergius for the German I.G. Dye Trust, and improved by the Standard Oil Development Com pany. Crude oil is built up by the add! tion of hydrogen at high pressure and temperature. The plant is being followed by two more of the same capacity and refiners have been licensed to use the patents.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1036, 29 July 1930, Page 6
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