Word: tropsch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from-gas plant, Carthage will use a variation of a method which Dobie Keith became familiar with during a visit to Germany in the thirties. With the Fischer-Tropsch method, the Germans made gasoline out of coal. But the gasoline was only 40-octane, and the method was too expensive for commercial use in this country. Keith worked out a similar method of making gasoline from natural gas, thinks he has made it commercially feasible. In brief, natural gas is burned with oxygen to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can then be reacted to produce liquid hydrocarbons, i.e., gasoline...