Summary

The manufacture of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen takes place in two main
stages. First, the manufacture of hydrogen, next, the synthesis of ammonia (the
Haber Bosch process). Hydrogen is produced from a variety of feedstocks, mostly
from natural gas or naphta via steam reforming . the heart of Haber-Bosch
process is the reaction between hydrogen and nitrogen in a fixed bed reactor. The
gases in stoichiometric proportions are heated and passed under pressure over a
catalyst. The proportion of ammonia in the
equilibrium mixture increases with increasing pressure and with falling temperature
according to Le Chateliers principle.