NOTES ON NITROGENOUS INDUSTRY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: July 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
DATE DISTR. 9 Jul 1954
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SUPP. 70
1. Before World war II (1938/1939) the following factories were in existenca:
a) Chorzow
b) Moscice
c) Snurow
d) Nyry
1) Chorosow and )loseice were state owned. The combined capacity in nitrogen
(N) was 63,600 tons per year. Of this 33,600 tons per year was E as
cywaide and 30,000 tone per year was N from awmonia as calcium nitrate,
ammonium nitrate, sodium nitrate, as?soniwa sulphate and ammonium chloride.
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a. Chorsow used 1?C syathemia. Rydregen- and nitrogen were obtained from
gasification of coal.
b. Moscice used hauseir.llyathesis. The hydrogen was obtained from gasification
of coke or craekinj of natural gas end the nitrogen from air liquefaction.
2) Knurow had a capacity in N of 11,500 tons per year. The product was
a?oniun sulphate.
a. The process used was Claude synthesis: the hydrogen from coke oven gas
and the nitrogen from air liquefaction.
3) Wyry had a capacity in N of 16,000 tons per year.
a. The process used*was NBC synthesis: the hydrogen electrulytic and the
nitrogen from air liquefaction.
b. This plant was not in operation 1938/1939.
e) Apart from the above factories, nose aleoniu+s sulphate was produced in coke oven
plants. The total production of x in 1937/1938 was 29,000 tons.
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Consumption of A per hectare of arable land yeas 1.53 kilos. The maximum pre-World
War II ps+odantioa van in 1920/1929 and amonrted to 57,000 tons or 3.C4 tons
l per hectare of arable land.,
2. After Vor14 War tt - 19k6
a) Claorsov In production at 40,000 tens N per year. 50X1-HUM
b) onion l*jhty per out of equipswat was dismantled The
factory via buimg rebuilt aM expected to be back is produotioa in 19k? With
a pleat oapasity of 30,000 tons 2 per year.
i) Knurov was not in paeodmation.
d) Wyry vas probably oonletsly destroyed.
3. Platy ? for 1955.
a) Chorson and b) Koscice. The produation pladaed for these two plants is 95,000
tons l per year as:
Cyanamide - 50,000 tons x per yr.
litre-Chalk - 30,000 tons if par yr.
Calcium nitrate - 15,000 tone N per yr.
o) Kouroi and Coke oven Plants - 20,000 tons D per yr.
d) Apart ft" the above, Us nor factories ems envisaged:
1) At Kindel
2) At Oniarossow with a capacity of 75,000 toms n per year. This factory will
be supplied by the USSR under specilal. egreeseent.
e) The total nitrogen consumption for 1955 is planned to be 240,000 tons N per
year. The six year plan estimates the yearly N production in 1955 a.
23Q,800 tons equal to 14.5 kilos of N per hectare.
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