Question

The most important commercial process of ammonia synthesis is:

• A. Dow process
• B. Haber-Bosch process
• C. Contact process
• D. Ostwald process

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Haber-Bosch process

The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is an artificial nitrogen fixation process and is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia today. It is named after its inventors, the German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, who developed it in the first half of the 20th century. The process converts atmospheric nitrogen ($N_2$) to ammonia ($N{H}_3$) by a reaction with hydrogen ($H_2$) using a metal catalyst under high temperatures and pressures. The reaction is given below.
$N_2+3H_2⟶2N{H}_3$ $(\Delta H°=-91.8kJ)or(\Delta H°=-45.8kJ\cdot {mol}^{-1})$