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CONTENTS

PART ONE GENERAL CONCEPTS A CASE FOR INTEGRATION

• I. CHARACTERISTICS OF INTEGRATION IN THE BASIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS INDUSTRY
• II. REVIEW OF THE STRUCTURE OF NITROGEN AND ITS COMPOUNDS

PART TWO

• III. GENERAL
• IV. PRODUCTION OF RAW SYNTHESIS GAS
• V. PURIFICATION OF RAW SYNTHESIS GAS
• VI. SYNTHESIS OF AMMONIA
• VII. PRODUCTION LINES, ECONOMIC ASPECTS AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS IN AMMONIA MANUFACTURE

PART THREE

• VIII. AMMONIA AND AMMONIUM SALTS
• IX. INORGANIC DERIVATIVES OF AMMONIA OTHER THAN AMMONIUM SALTS
• X. AMINES AND IMINES
• XI. NITRILES
• XII. AMIDES, IMIDES AND LACTAMS
• XIII. USES OF INTERMEDIATES AND By-PRODUCTS RESULTING FROM AMMONIA
• XIV. GENERAL
• XV. AMMONIA OXIDATION AND LOWER NITROGEN OXIDES PRODUCTION
• XVI. PRODUCTION OF DILUTE NITRIC ACID AND HIGHER NITROGEN OXIDES FROM NITROUS GASES
• XVII. PRODUCTION LINES, ECONOMIC ASPECTS AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS IN THE DILUTE NITRIC ACID MANUFACTURE
• XVIII. DILUTED NITRIC ACID AND ITS INORGANIC DERIVATIVES: CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID (THROUGH DISTILLATION) AND NITRATES
• XIX. NITROGEN OXIDES AND THEIR INORGANIC DERIVATIVES: CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID (THROUGH SYNTHESIS), NITRITES AND OTHER SALTS, COVALENT COMPOUNDS
• XX. C-, 0- AND N- NITRO COMPOUNDS
• XXI. C-, 0- AND N- NITROSO COMPOUNDS
• XXII. UTILIZATION OF INTERMEDIATES AND BY-PRODUCTS RESULTING FROM THE NITRIC ACID AND NITROGEN OXIDES MANUFACTURE