Raw materials for synthetic ammonia: The manufacture of hydrogen and nitrogen

✍ Scribed by West, J. H.

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1922
• Weight: 254 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000411811

✦ Synopsis

Vcl. SLI, Ao. 161 st,ood that i t IWS being produced 011 tllc mllt.inent with t h o aid of clicnp wntcr power n t 2s. ~( 1 . per loo0 cb. ft. TI10 proccss adopted by tho ~~ndisclie coiiipnny ivns prcfcrnblc ~vlicii liydrogeii was requircd i n vcry largo qunntitics, but the ordinary Cntd,\tiC process wns best for slllnll Ijlnllti;. -Dr.

Armstrong then descrilicd tho prepnrntioli of t h e ~iickcl cntnlyst uscd in Iiydrogciintion all(l Cl1ipll:lsiscd the points tlint tho cfiiciciicy of tllc cntnlgst dcpc~~clcd I I ~O I I the csistcncc of ninsiniuni surface, nnd that tlic oil t o Iic Iiydrogcn:itcd Inust bo clcn~i. T l ~c rcmnindcr of tlic ndtlress wns clevotcd to nn csplnnntion of tho ninnncr i n wvliicl~ the ciltnlyst briiigs about the hydrogciintioil, ciz., hy the intcr-Illcdiiito formation of an unstnble ntlditirc coinpoiiiid of tho iiiclicl nnd tlic fat. ((!/. J., 1020, 249 i t ; 1922, G i 11, 30.1 11.