BY GEORGE LUNGE, PH.D., DR.ING.

Emeritus Professor of Technical Chemistry, Zurich

Completely Revised and Rewritten under the Editorship of ALEXANDER CHARLES CUMMING

O.B.E., D.Sc.. F.I.C.

VOLUME III

The Concentration of Sulphuric Acid

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Medium 8vo.-Illustrations and Diagrams.

THE MANUFACTURE

OF

SULPHURIC ACID

(CONTACT PROCESS)

BY

F. D. MILES, M.Sc. (LOND.), A.R.C.Sc., F.I.C.

CONTENTS

Historical Account of the Contact Process.

Sulphur Trioxide and Oleum (Properties and Analysis).

Gas-equilibrium and Velocity of Reaction.

Catalysts and Contact Mass.

Purification of Burner Gas.

Converters and Conversion.

Absorption of Sulphur Trioxide.

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Descriptions of Plants and their Operations :-

Grillo Plants of D.E.S., U.S. Government Plants,
U.S. Naval Proving Ground, Mannheim, Tentelew,
Simon-Carves, German Plants.

Production and Costs.

GURNEY AND JACKSON

LONDON: 33 PATERNOSTER ROW

EDINBURGH: TWEEDDALE COURT

THE FIXATION

OF

Atmospheric Nitrogen

THE MANUFACTURE OF AMMONIA, NITRATES
AND OTHER NITROGEN COMPOUNDS FROM
ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN

The Birkeland-Eyde Process. The Schonherr Process.
The Pauling Process. Other Arc Processes. The

Hausser and other Combustion Processes.

Fixation of Nitrogen as Ammonia :-
The Ammonia Equilibrium.

The Haber Process.

Ammonium and

The Claude Process. Other Processes for the
Synthesis of Ammonia and
Ammonium Compounds.

The Oxidation of Ammonia to Nitric Acid :-

Theory of the Oxidation of Ammonia to Nitric Acid.
Technical Processes for Ammonia Oxidation.

Fixation of Nitrogen as Calcium Cyanamide :-

Theory of Calcium Cyanamide Formation. Technical
Production of Calcium Cyanamide and its Conversion
to Ammonia.

Fixation of Nitrogen as Cyanide.

Other Processes for the Fixation of Nitrogen.

GURNEY AND JACKSON

LONDON: 33 PATERNOSTER ROW
EDINBURGH: TWEEDDALE COURT

OF

SULPHURIC ACID

BY

JOHN WILFRID PARKES
M.Sc. (Birmingham), A.I.C.

TECHNICAL SUPERINTENDENT OF MESSRS W. AND H. M. GOULDING, LTD.
LATE CHEMICAL WORKS MANAGER OF MESSRS KYNOCH LTD., EXPLOSIVES MANUFACTURERS,
ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW

1924