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The dramatic increase of mineral oil prices has caused intense efforts to develop alternative sources to provide liquid fuels and raw materials for the chemical industry. Due to limited resources, the production of mineral oil is predicted to peak before the year 2000 and to decline from then on (Figure 1) [1]. Resources of coal are estimated to be ten times larger than those of mineral oil. Thus, in the long run, production of coal will exceed that of oil and processes for hydrocarbon synthesis will be based on coal. The economy of these processes is dependent on the oil-to-coal price ratio and the date of their technical realization is difficult to foresee at present.
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