List of Industrial Processes - Others

Others

Organized by product:

  • Aluminium - (Deville process, Bayer process, Hall-Héroult process, Wöhler process)
  • Ammonia, used in fertilizer & explosives - (Haber process)
  • Bromine - (Dow process)
  • Chlorine, used in chemicals - (Chloralkali process, Weldon process, Hooker process)
  • Fat - (Rendering)
  • Fertilizer - (Nitrophosphate process)
  • Glass - (Pilkington process)
  • Gold - (Bacterial oxidation, Parkes process)
  • Heavy Water, used to refine radioactive products - (Girdler sulfide process)
  • Hydrogen - (Steam reforming, Water Gas Shift Reaction)
  • Lead (and Bismuth) - (Betts electrolytic process, Betterton-Kroll process)
  • Nickel - (Mond process)
  • Nitric acid - (Ostwald process)
  • Paper - (Pulping, Kraft process, Fourdrinier machine)
  • Rubber - (Vulcanization)
  • Salt - (Alberger process, Grainer evaporation process)
  • Semiconductor crystals - (Bridgeman technique, Czochralski process)
  • Silver - (Patio process, Parkes process)
  • Sodium carbonate, used for soap - (Leblanc process, Solvay process, Leblanc-Deacon process)
  • Sulfuric acid - (Lead chamber process, Contact process)
  • Titanium - (Hunter process, Kroll process)
  • Zirconium - (Hunter process, Kroll process, Crystal bar process, Iodide process)

A list by process:

  • Alberger process, Grainer evaporation process - produces salt from brine
  • Bacterial oxidation - used to produce gold
  • Bayer process - the extraction of aluminium from ore
  • Chloralkali process, Weldon process - for producing chlorine and sodium hydroxide
  • Crystal bar process, Iodide process - produces zirconium
  • Dow process - produces bromine from brine
  • FFC Cambridge Process
  • Girdler sulfide process - for making heavy water
  • Hunter process, Kroll process - produces titanium and zirconium
  • Industrial rendering - the separation of fat from bone and protein
  • Lead chamber process, Contact process - production of sulfuric acid
  • Mond process - nickel
  • Nitrophosphate process - a number of similar process for producing fertilizer
  • Ostwald process - produces nitric acid
  • Pidgeon process - produces magnesium, reducing the oxide using silicon
  • Steam reforming, Water Gas Shift Reaction - produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide from methane or hydrogen and carbon dioxide from water and carbon monoxide
  • Vacuum metalising - a finishing process
  • Perstorp Formox process - The oxidation of methanol to produce formaldehyde.

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