All of our contributions are what we dream about in working and developing for sustainable common progress. The ammonia manufacturing processes are grouped into 4 processing units with the following sequences:. For desulfurization, the natural gas must be passed in a vessel called Desulfirizer. The sulfur-free natural gas is then delivered to the Reforming Unit. Hydrogen is usually produced by the steam reforming of hydrocarbons, with natural gas the dominant feedstock.
It can also be produced by the partial oxidation of naphtha or residual oil using air or oxygen and from coal gasification. High pressures cost a lot to produce and maintain. That means that the running costs of your plant are very high. If the pressure used is too high, the cost of generating it exceeds the price you can get for the extra ammonia produced. The catalyst has no effect whatsoever on the position of the equilibrium. Adding a catalyst doesn't produce any greater percentage of ammonia in the equilibrium mixture.
Its only function is to speed up the reaction. In the absence of a catalyst the reaction is so slow that virtually no reaction happens in any sensible time.
The catalyst ensures that the reaction is fast enough for a dynamic equilibrium to be set up within the very short time that the gases are actually in the reactor. When the gases leave the reactor they are hot and at a very high pressure. Ammonia is easily liquefied under pressure as long as it isn't too hot, and so the temperature of the mixture is lowered enough for the ammonia to turn to a liquid.
The nitrogen and hydrogen remain as gases even under these high pressures, and can be recycled. If this is the first set of questions you have done, please read the introductory page before you start. A brief summary of the Haber Process The Haber Process combines nitrogen from the air with hydrogen derived mainly from natural gas methane into ammonia.
A flow scheme for the Haber Process looks like this: Some notes on the conditions The catalyst The catalyst is actually slightly more complicated than pure iron. The pressure The pressure varies from one manufacturing plant to another, but is always high. Explaining the conditions The proportions of nitrogen and hydrogen The mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen going into the reactor is in the ratio of 1 volume of nitrogen to 3 volumes of hydrogen.
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