The new method for opening floors to remove the extra rge mana crystal seems to be w, and we were able to opewo highest level floors as a test. So fthe stru team w on that project mostly ha themselves with little ht for the foreseable future. The lightstone facility has reached a simir stage where we've mao make the first boiler work, including l dummy ptes, so they'll be able to replicate that stru a few times before I'm once again o help over there.

  All that to say that I'll be able to start tinkering with the details on the Haber process. There are three different po portions for me to work on before I try to run my est. First, I want to embed a fan ih the reactor and ste loop to drive gas through the rea chamber. I'll be driving that farically with embedded copper wire, and powered externally with a stirling engine. The sed pohat I o work on is adding catalyst to the reactor. I recall that fine mage was used as a catalyst, but it had some additives and some treatments doo it in the reactor as part of the process, so I'll have to do some tinkering to dial it in and make it more effit.

  The final thing I o add are heat ptes around the reactor itself t it up to temperature. I believe that the temperature I o get the reactor to is about 800 degrees Fahre, which is about the melting point of zinc, meaning I should have a retively easy way to test if I've reached a hot enough temperature.

  Adding in the fan was a retively easy process and only took six days. Simirly, getting a batch of finely powdered mage to use as catalyst also only took a few days, and a rge part of that was carrying it from the dam to the area where I'm w on this projebsp; I chose to build it in the valley behind the b, close enough that I could easily make the hike each day, but far enough that it shouldn't be affected by the amount of mana drain the b experiences.

  However, adding enough heat fluorite ptes to the rea chamber to melt zinded up taking a siderable amount of time, and I had to try multiple different things before I could settle on a design that actually got hot enough. What I ended up needing was cut heat fluorite fre crystals, rather than the precut ptes. By using fluorite of the rge heat fluorite crystals, cut in half, and then a curve cut into them, I could put eight pieces around the reactor chamber, allowing it to reach a high enough temperature.

  Getting those heat fluorite pieces took four months though. In the meantime while I waited, I did a ton of testing at the denser side of the reactor exhaust, where the ammonia should settle out as a liquid for recovery. Even without the reactetting up to quite a hot enough temperature, I was still able to do some amount of testing as to whether I could fully cool the reacted gases or not.

  Thankfully, I shouldn't actually o cool them too much, as at the pressures we'll be w at, even after the pressure drop in the reactor, ammonia liquid should dense well above ambient temperature. The main issue is that our pressure vessels are extra thid reinforced with stone, meaning they don't have great thermal ductivity. However, I was able to e up with a good solution, though it required a near plete redesign of the yout. We're already bringing in liquid nitrogen, and then attempting to heat it in the boiler to gasify.

  So, I installed a terflow heat exger from the reactor exhaust to the liquid nitrogen tank. That should provide adequate cooling for the ammonia to dense, as long as I'm careful not to let the temperature get too cold in the heat exger. This solution required that I also installed a rge stirling denser in the liquid nitrogen tank to re-dense any nitrogen that boiled back up the tank. I ran multiple tests again on the new design to ehat it also held up to the pressures involved.

  Once, I was fident that everything was w again, I charged the reactor with the mage powder and started the first full trial run. While it wasn't the most exg thing ever, I did recover a small amount of ammonia. I didn't actually have a good way to collect it in atmosphere, so when I opehe colle chamber, I just smelled the strong st of ammonia with no liquid present, as it instantly boiled away at atmospheric pressure.

  To properly collect it, I'll probably want to dissolve it in water to form aqueous ammonia. That process is quite exothermic, so I'll want to be somewhat careful about how exactly I'll perform that process. The general amount of ammonia I recovered was also quite low, so I'll be tinkering with the catalyst for a while to see if I increase the overall yield as well. Though finding a proper way to measure the volume of yield will be important as well.

  I came up with what I think is a somewhat clever solution to both problems at the same time. The same pressure meism that releases new liquid nitrogen into the boiler when the pressure gets too low could also be used to drip water in parallel to the ammonia collector. Whenever liquid nitrogen is dripped into the system to repce lost nitrogen in the form of ammonia, water will be dripped in parallel into the collector. The more nitroges, the more water is put into the collector.

  Using this method, I was able to easily determine what helped or hindered ammonia yields whenever I ged something in the system. Over the course of four more months, I tinkered with the catalyst. I tried adding and removing all sorts of things, and even tried reag it in a few dozen ways. The best results that I found involved two steps. First, a small amount of the waste powders o be mixed ba with the mage. Sed, before being used, I it up to temperature in the reactor while the whole thing was charged with hydrogen, but the fan was off. After cooking it that way for about six hours, it was done.

  Each of those processes on their own increased yield, but both together had the rgest effebsp; Ultimately, the yield was high enough that I realized our liquid nitrogen produ will be outstripped by this reactor. It's capable of reag around 25 gallons of liquid nitrogen in a day, which results in almost 500 gallons of our ammonia solution in water.

  However, we only produce about 5 gallons of liquid nitrogen a day, and the hydrogen produ for this facility is quite small as well, meaning realistically, it'll only operate in batches. Of the liquid nitrogen we produce, we use some of it for mining the fluorite deposit as a cooling agent. Based on those limits, we really only produce about 50 gallons of ammonia solution a day without upsg both the hydrogen and liquid nitrogen produ.

  The ammonia solution itself has three immediate applications. First, by diluting it heavily, it be used as a fertilizer. The sed use is as a nitrogen source or as a base in research applications. Finally, the third use is as a ing agent. With a little extra work, we could also use it for nitriding our steel. Unfortunately however, the process to turn ammonia into nitric acid requires ptinum as a catalyst to be effit, so that's off the table. Otherwise, we could use it to produce ammonium nitrate for explosives, or even just as a source of nitric acid itself. There are alternatives that we could attempt to produitric acid from ammonia, but given our limited supply of ammonia, we'd probably be better off using the Birkend-Eyde process to produce it, even if it's ineffit.

  For now, most of our ammonia will probably be used as fertilizer and as a ing agent. I still o train some demons to operate this facility, aermihe amount of ammonia to use as fertilizers for the pnts. Nitrogen sources like ammonia are quite rare and difficult to produce, but it opens up a ton of options moving forward.