Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ammonia
- Uses
- Manufacture
of fertilisers
- Manufacture
of explosives
- Manufacture of
cleaning fluids
- Raw Materials
- Hydrogen
- Obtained by reacting natural gas
with steam
- Mostly methane
- Also can be obtained by
cracking oil fractions
- Nitrogen
- Obtained
from the air
- Air is 78 per cent
nitrogen; nearly the
rest is oxygen
- When hydrogen is burned in the air, the oxygen combines
with the hydrogen-leaving nitrogen behind
- Conditions
- Temperature-450
degrees C
- Pressure-200 atmospheres
- Iron catalyst
- Equation
- Diagram