TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The feedstock has an average carbon number of 6-25 and comprises:(i) a hydrocarbon of boiling range 50-500degreesC (preferably 60-350degreesC), e.g. kerosene of boiling range 150-200degreesC or a synthetic gas-oil of boiling range 200-500degreesC (particularly 200-350degreesC); or(ii) an alkanol or an ether.Preferred Synthesis Process: The oxygen-to-carbon ratio is 0.45-0.75 (preferably 0.45-0.65). The feedstock is contacted with the catalyst at a pressure of 2-50 bar (more preferably 5-20 bar) and a temperature of 800-1,500degreesC (more preferably 850-1,300degreesC). The contact takes place under adiabatic conditions and (part of) the feedstock is present as visible droplets before it contacts the catalyst. The oxygen-containing gas is contacted with the catalyst at a gas hourly space velocity of 200,000-3,000,000 (preferably 500,000-1,000,000) Nl/kg/hour.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Catalyst: The catalyst comprises rhodium or iridium and has a fixed form, preferably as a fixed bed of catalyst particles or as a ceramic foam.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ELECTRICAL POWER AND ENERGY - Preferred Generation Process: At least part of the mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide may be enriched in hydrogen using a water gas shift reaction, optionally followed by removal of carbon dioxide, and (part of) the carbon monoxide may be removed from the (hydrogen enriched) mixture by a means other than a water gas shift reaction. EXAMPLE - Iridium tetrachloride monohydrate (53 wt.% Ir, 0.1 g) was dissolved in water (1 g) and used to impregnate yttrium partially stabilized zirconia with 650 pores/cm2 (1.0 g) in 3 steps with drying at 100degreesC between steps. The material was then calcined in air at 700degreesC for 1 hour. Synthetic kerosene of boiling range 150-200degreesC and smoke point greater than 50 mm was sprayed into an air stream with a nozzle comprising 2 concentric capillaries with the mouth placed 2 cm from a bed of the above catalyst (0.87 g, 1.13 ml) in a quartz tube of inner diameter 12 mm. The pressure was 3 bars, the kerosene was fed at 154 ml/hour and air was fed at 470 Nl/hour, corresponding to a GHSV of 540,000 Nl/kg catalyst/hour. The O2/C ratio was 0.55. Light-off was achieved by co-feeding hydrogen and using an infrared lamp. The temperature at the top of the catalyst bed remained at 1,250 degreesC. Kerosene conversion was 95% and the yields (mole/kg catalyst) were 4.8 x 103 for carbon monoxide and 3.7 x 103 for hydrogen. No carbon build-up was observed (visually) on the catalyst under the operating conditions.