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This excess hydrogen is normally carried forward to be compressed into the synthesis loop, from which it is ultimately purged as fuel. Addition of by-product CO2 where available may be advantageous in that it serves to adjust the reformed gas to a more stoichiometric composition gas for methanol production, which results in a decrease in natural gas consumption (8). Carbon-rich off-gases from other sources, such as acetylene units, can also be used to provide supplemental synthesis gas. Alternatively, the hydrogen-rich purge gas can be an attractive feedstock for ammonia production (9). 

Ammonia is consumed in the manufacture of ammonium phosphates and ammonium sulfate by reaction with phosphoric acid and sulfuric acid, respectively. The phosphates may contain ortho- and polyphosphate values. Ammonium sulfate is also a by-product from other ammonia-using industries such as caprolactam (qv) and hydrogen cyanide (see Cyanides). 

Synthesis gas is a major source of hydrogen, which is used for producing ammonia. Ammonia is the host of many chemicals such as urea, ammonium nitrate, and hydrazine. Carbon dioxide, a by-product from synthesis gas, reacts with ammonia to produce urea. 

Attempts to effect ring expansion of methyl 2-azidobenzoate in the presence of other nucleophiles have failed. Thus, photolysis in tetrahydrofuran solution saturated with hydrogen sulfide, or with ammonia, produced methyl 2-aminobenzoate in 54 and 37 % yield, respectively, as the sole identifiable product.197 Photolysis of phenyl azide in ethanolic phenol gave 2-phenoxy-3//-azepine in poor yield (8 %).203,204 2-Mesityl-3//-azepine (10 %) is the surprising, and only tentatively explained, product from the photolysis of phenyl azide in mcsitylene in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid.179... 

An explosion rupturing an ammonia separator (still) in an ammonia production unit, probably because mercury vapour from geological sources entered with hydrogen syngas originating from natural gas and reacted to give explosive nitride deposits. The separator remains crackled when scraped [1]. For a more academic study of the effects of mercury on ammonia plants, including embrittlement and corrosion, as well as explosive deposits [2],... 

The use of air alone leads to a relatively low calorific value product gas, of the order of 4-6 MJ/mi (LHV basis), which is not attractive for H2 production in view of the large bulk of N2 to be separated from it compared to a preseparation from the air. Only the application of hydrogen in ammonia production would need N2 as cofeedstock. Therefore, in this context only steam- or oxygen-blown gasification concepts are dealt with. The raw product gas can, thus, be produced by an oxygen-blown or indirectly heated steam-blown processes. 

Within the series of the Chemical Economics Handbook published by SRI Consulting, nearly all known direct hydrogen producers worldwide are cited (see www.sriconsulting.com). Another possibility to estimate the produced hydrogen volumes is from the respective hydrogen demand of the final products (e.g., from ammonia, methanol or refinery products) (see LBST (1998)). 

Thus methanol and ammonia plants are sometimes combined since carbon dioxide, which must be removed from hydrogen to use it for ammonia production, can in turn be used as feed to adjust the COrHj ratio to 1 2 for efficient methanol synthesis. The methanol can be condensed and purified by distillation, bp 65 °C. Unreacted synthesis gas is recycled. Other products include higher boiling alcohols and dimethyl ether. 

Approximately 80% of all hydrogen cyanide is manufactured by the reaction of air, ammonia, and natural gas over a platinum or platinum-rhodium catalyst at elevated temperature. The reaction is referred to as the Andrussow process. Hydrogen cyanide is also available as a by-product from aciylonitrile manufacture by ammoxidation (20%). 

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