Question: Make an engineering flowchart! With boxes for reactors anf arrows Part B . Design a process to produce a H N O 3 + H

Make an engineering flowchart! With boxes for reactors anf arrows Part B. Design a process to produce a HNO3+H2O solution from methane, water, and air. That is, design a process to produce ammonia, and then use the ammonia to produce nitric acid. Do not simply copy the ammonia process developed in Chapter 2. The ammonia process can be improved when integrated with the nitric acid synthesis. Specifically, you can avoid the costly cryogenic separation of N2 and O2. Hint: Use excess NH3 in the feed to the nitric acid reactor in part (B).(Excess NH3 is not necessarily best for part (A).)
Recall ammonia is synthesized by the following reaction at 500 :
N2+3H2Fe2NH3.
The conversion to ammonia is less than 100% : the effluent will contain N2 and H2. Generate H2 by the method used in Chapter 2 for the fuel cell. You may assume methane can be "burned" in water in one step at 450C :
CH4+2H2OcatalystXCO2+4H2.
Furthermore, you may assume excess H2O will consume all the CH4. Below is a summary of substances required, tolerated, and forbidden in the three reactors:
\table[[,Reactor],[Substance,Methane burner,Ammonia synthesis,Nitric acid synthesis],[H2,product,reactant,OK
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