Merryp
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From the Wiki: CaSO4 + SiO2 -> SO3 + CaSiO3. Does this actually work?
http://www.sciencemadness.org/smwiki/index.php/Sulfur_trioxi...
Temperatures aside, this seems pretty straightforward, and doesn't require gas phase oxidation with a catalyst at elevated pressure.
Given the very limited citations, both here and on wikipedia, the question remains whether that process actually works as described.
Are there any better sources available on that matter?
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annaandherdad
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This was done at Whitehaven in the UK, google on it plus "sulphuric acid" you'll get lots of hits. They produced lots of H2SO4 there by this process
until 1992.
Any other SF Bay chemists?
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yes https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/9554/Rec1949_044.pdf
SO3 is very toxic. and heating to 1000C isn't easy. a much better way is to heat MgSO4.6H2O-------(slow heating)-----MgO+H2SO4 +5H2O more information
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Merryp
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Neat. That one's still going via the contact process/SO2, though.
Yes, I'm aware of the inherent difficulties and dangers, I'm interested in it from a "chemistry from scratch" point of view, historical production,
that kind of stuff is what I find most interesting.
[Edited on 21-1-2020 by Merryp]
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Merryp
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Quote: Originally posted by annaandherdad  | | This was done at Whitehaven in the UK, google on it plus "sulphuric acid" you'll get lots of hits. They produced lots of H2SO4 there by this process
until 1992. |
Well, wikipedia contradicts itself on that matter. On the page for SO2, it claims the opposite:
"sulfur dioxide can also be a byproduct in the manufacture of calcium silicate cement; CaSO4 is heated with coke and sand in this process:
2 CaSO4 + 2 SiO2 + C → 2 CaSiO3 + 2 SO2 + CO2
Until the 1970s, commercial quantities of sulfuric acid and cement were produced by this process in Whitehaven, England. "
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draculic acid69
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If it requires heating to 1000'c it's useless considering that mgso4 or na2so4 heated to 650'c lead to so3 as well.im guessing that caso4 would follow
suit at a lower temperature.i read somewhere that ammonium persulfate heated to 180'c gives off so3.hobby electronic stores will have it in pure form.
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