industrial process

Noun
  1. A systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something (synset 113519131)
    is a type of: physical process, process - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
    subtypes:
    • acheson process - an industrial process for making graphite by heating a mixture of coke and clay
    • bessemer process - an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost
    • cyanide process - an industrial process for extracting gold and silver by treating ore with a sodium cyanide solution
    • electrostatic precipitation - a process that removes suspended dust particles from a gas by applying a high voltage electrostatic charge to the particles and collecting them on charged plates
    • fractional process, fractionation - a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
    • haber process, haber-bosch process - an industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the presence of an iron catalyst
    • solvay process - an industrial process for producing sodium carbonate from sodium chloride and ammonia and carbon dioxide

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