Process for the plasma-catalytic production of ammonia

US6471932B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Degussa-Huels AG · DE

Inventors

• Jurgen Gieshoff · Bad Orb, DE
• Jurgen Lang · Ludwigsburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 23, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 29, 2002
• Expiry date: Jan 5, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S123/10
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process is disclosed for the plasma-catalytic production of ammonia. A gas stream containing nitrogen and water vapor is passed through an electrical gas discharge in the discharge space of which is arranged a catalyst which contains a catalytically active component of at least one metal which can be titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, iron, ruthenium, osmium, cobalt, rhodium, iridium, nickel, palladium, platinum, manganese or copper on a support.