Contact Process Questions help! I answered some these are the ones I need answered though!

Question

anonymous · Answer

1. Describe the process you researched, including its uses in various industrial or health fields.
2. Who developed or discovered this process? When? What country was he or she from? (Provide this information if you can find it.)
3. Provide a short paragraph providing some historical background. Why is, or was, this an important chemical process?
4. Write a balanced chemical equation for this reaction, including the energy term. Is it an endothermic or exothermic reaction?
5. Use Le Châtelier’s principle to explain the conditions that favor the forward reaction.
6. Under what temperature, pressure, and other conditions is this reaction typically carried out? How does this relate to part of your answer for Question 3?
7. What safety, cost, or other considerations prevent most industrial applications from using the most ideal conditions for high yield of the product?
8. What catalyst, if any, is used for this reaction?

sweetburger · Answer

1. To create Ammonium for Fertilizer(assuming your talking the Haber Process)
2. Fritz Haber. 1917 or something like that. Germany
3.This was an important chemical reaction due to the last amount of Ammonium known to man being depleted in Chile. All the countries were buying the Ammonia as it was the main ingredient in explosives at the time. Fritz Haber single-handily increased the length of WWI by 2 years and fed all of India.
4. N2+4H2<=> 2NH4
5.Well there are multiple ways that increase the concentration of the products. If you increased the reactants, removed NH4, increased the pressure, and increased the temperature( ignoring the fact that this reaction is exothermic, it has been experimentally identified that at around 300C the foward reaction is far favored over the reverse), but do to the next question you could say by cooling down the reaction cause that is like removing the product.

sweetburger · Answer

i didnt have to look any of this up lol

sweetburger · Answer

I dont know 6,7,8 off the top of my head