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Liquid Fuel to Come from Coal Soon ?
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RESEARCH being done in this country to produce liquid fuels from coal is partly revealed in " Fuel Research 1957, The Annual Report of the Fuel Research Station' (Stationery Office, 4s. 6d.).
With the rapid development of nuclear energy to produce electricity, it was possible to envisage a future surplus of low-grade coal as used at present by power stations. Such coal, says the report, could be converted into liquid fuels and town gas by a combination of gasification and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Work on the liquid-phase synthesis technique is to be continued at Stevenage up to pilot-plant scale.
A catalyst has been tried to diminish the amounts of combustible constituents in exhaust gases from vehicles, and was found to reduce carbon monoxide by about 85 per cent, and hydrogen by about 80 per cent. After the vehicle had covered some 11,000 miles, there was a small decrease in the effectiveness of the catalytic combustion unit.