Fertilisers + Haber Process Flashcards
Making nitrogenous fertilisers
Use ammonia
What do fertilisers contain
Soluble nitrogen compounds
Making ammonia
Haver process
Reversible reaction
Can react both ways
Haver process
Nitrogen from air reacts with hydrogen from natural gas to form ammonia
Type of reaction when ammonia is formed
Exothermic
Dynamic equilibrium
Forward and backwards of reversible reaction happening simultaneously at same rate
Haber process: increase pressure
Increases yield and cost to do
Haber process: higher temp and why
Move to left , to favour endothermic reaction
Decrease yield
Haber process:Low temp
High yield, long time
Why high temp used for haver process
Increase rate if reaction, reach dynamic equilibrium quickly
Normal Haber process conditions
Iron catalyst
Temp: 450*c
Pressure : 200 atmospheres
What is yeast
Single felled fungus used for fermentation
Fermentation
Sugar—-yeast—-> ethanol carbon dioxide
Conditions required for fermentation
Anaerobic (air causes h2o and co2),warm (too low to slow,too high kills yeast)
Ethanol from crude oil
Hydration, ethene + steam—catalyst—> Ethanol
Advantages of each method of ethanol production
Hydration produces almost 100% ethene
Fermentation uses renewable resources
Making ethene
Dehydration- heating ethanol with catalyst
Homologous series
Same feature different number of carbon atoms
What element is present in alcohols but not hydrocarbons
Oxygen
Hydroxyl group
OH
General formula for alkenes
CnH2n
Alkanes general formula
CnH2n+2
Making ethanoic acid
Ethanol reacts with air
Conditions for producing ethanoic acid
Oxygen, it’s oxidation
Ethanoic acids homologous series
Carboxylic acids
Ethanoic acid + base /carbonate
Ethanoate (salts)
Carboxylic group
Cooh
General formula for Carboxylic acids
CnH2nO2
Where do esters naturally occur
Fruits
Use of esters
Sweet flavourings
Forming esters
Carboxylic acid + alcohols
Ethanoic acid + ethanol
Ethyl ethanoate + water
Many esters in a chain
Polyester
Advantage of polyester
Can be recycled
What are fats and oils
Big esters(long chain)
Sodium stearate
Soap
Making sodium stearate
NaOH + glycerol tristerate —> glycerol + sodium stearate
General equation for making soap
Concentrated alkali + oil/fat —-> soap + glycerol
What are soaps
Salts of long chain Carboxylic acids
Head of soap
Hydrophillic
Soap tail
Long chain of hydrophobic carbon atoms
What part of soap sticks to grease
Hydrophobic (tail)
Turning oils to fat
Catalytic hydrogenation
Catalytic hydrogenination
Saturate double bonds with hydrogen with a metal catalyst (usually nickel)
General formula for alcohol
CnH2n+1OH
Acid + litmus paper
Damp blue turns red
What’s made from ethanoic acid and calcium
Hydrogen
NaOH + HCL
—-> NaCl + H2o