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Überraschung bei 100 Jahre alter chemischer Reaktion. Chemiker beobachten erstmals selbsterhaltende Oszillationen in der Fischer-Tropsch-Reaktion. #Chemie #FischerTropsch #chemischeReaktion #Syngas #EFuel #PowertoX
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Überraschung bei 100 Jahre alter chemischer Reaktion

Unerkannte Oszillationen: Die Fischer-Tropsch-Reaktion wird seit rund 100 Jahren genutzt, um Kohlenwasserstoffe aus Kohlenmonoxid und Wasserstoff zu

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Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ⭕​Nov 21, 2022

@Dave_von_s Yes, they (SASOL) did, and as of at least 2005, still do:

https://www.sasol.com/media-centre/media-releases/sasol-produces-15-billion-barrels-synthetic-fuel-coal-fifty-years

I thought I'd mentioned that on the #dreddit, though search says otherwise.

The US also attempted to develop a coal-based synfuels technology between 1928--1953, and there was even a Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act (1944). History here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120111183405/http://fossil.energy.gov/aboutus/history/syntheticfuels_history.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_Liquid_Fuels_Program

#Synfuels #FischerTropsch #SASOL #SouthAfrica

Sasol produces 1,5 billion barrels of synthetic fuel from coal in fifty years | Sasol

Sasol has produced almost 1,5 billion barrels of synthetic fuel from about 800 million tonnes of coal since the first sample of synthetic oil from coal was produced fifty years ago at its Sasolburg plant near Johannesburg in South Africa on 23 August 1955.