ABSTRACT
A process for making the explosive RDX by nitrating hemamethylene tetramine in acetic anhydride. Developed in Germany during World War II.
KAAP
[
K
ellogg
A
dvanced
A
mmonia
P
rocess] The first high-pressure process developed for synthesizing ammonia from its elements that does not use an iron-containing catalyst. The reformer gas for this process is provided by the *KRES process. The catalyst was developed by BP; it contains ruthenium supported on carbon. Developed by M.W. Kellogg Company in 1990 and first installed by the Ocelot Ammonia Company (now Pacific Ammonia) at Kitimat, British Columbia, in 1992. By 2005, over 200 large scale plants had been contracted worldwide.
