
SPIN & 100 years of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
On April 2, the Swiss Power-to-X Innovation Network SPIN celebrated a very special anniversary at its General Assembly: 100 years of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. In 1925, chemists Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch developed a process for converting carbon monoxide and hydrogen (synthesis gas) into long-chain hydrocarbons – an important step that today plays a central role […]