The Equilibrium in a Process for the Production of Sodium Cyanide

Citation

Manning, Paul DeVries (1917) The Equilibrium in a Process for the Production of Sodium Cyanide. Master's thesis, California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/jjaf-m922. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:07052024-203247999

Abstract

[Introduction]: The normally large demand for supplies of the various nitrogenous products of the industries has been greatly increased as a result of the war. The importation of nitrates to the United States from Chile would be stopped in case of a naval blockade. The problem of assuring an adequate supply of such materials is, therefore, a very pertinent one. This may best be solved by the improvement of the present commercial processes for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen and by the development of new processes, not at present successful commercially. Apparently, the most promising known process of the latter class is based upon the formation of sodium cyanide by passing nitrogen gas over a mixture of sodium carbonate and carbon in the presence of a suitable catalyzer at high temperatures.

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