industrial process

Other forms: industrial processes

Definitions of industrial process

1. noun

   a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something
   types:

   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

   destructive distillation

   heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products

   fractional distillation

   fractionation of a liquid by distillation

   type of:

   physical process, process

   a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states