MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON CHEMICAL PLANTS AT SEVERO-DONETSK AND VERKHNEYE, USSR, AND THE LEUNA AND HUELS PLANTS IN GERMANY

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• Publication Date: August 1, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
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COUNTRY USSR/Germaby
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Information on Chemical
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
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J The Don Soda plant is not located in Lisichansk (18a=ONq 38m22E) but about
two miles southeast of Lisichanskq along the Donetsk River,. in the town of
Verkhneyeso The name of the railroad station is Pere ezdna ab
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Plants at Severo.Donetsk and VerkhneyestJSSR,.
and the Leuna and Huels Plants iri Germany
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never heard that they are hydroforming petroleum stook.
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in the USSR refineries. Prof Bq~]4va at the Karpov Institmte1
was very much interested in oatalytio.oraoking, , 50X1-HUM
year an, was:.aotually soaroest in the town where it aai "prm
and smuggled it from the plant. Soda, as. a restalt of th !ive.'
. prisoners-or war oonoeaiea basing soda in vieir rood.aanniet*r#
strong chlorine odor surrounding the ;chlorine.plant.in Aussig,
duped.
The methanol and ammonia plants were in most respoets ind.pend nt,
but at Leuna the oompressors were the bottleneoka in produetiou?
and these oompressors.wero used for dual purposws.' There were,
of course, other tie-ins to provide the flexibility Is operation
required in.a- large plant.
Lis order to have a going punt
concern, the vtdts selected the boat and most modern pleads
of equipment. if the remaining deeps were stitffioient for eon
tinned operation, it . was just luo y for Lets. It is . bard .to
speoify.whether the selection was made only to help V 2.predvo.
Lion and translate as mush produotive oapdoity as possible from.
beuna to the U5SB, or whether the intention was to din*ntlt, on
general principles and deliberately try to jeopardise operatioms
at Leuna, In any event, Leuna, was large enough and resourceful
enough "float it always stayed in business, For example, despite ;
the fast that most of the evaporators from the fertilizer plant
were shiVped to the USSR, Leona is nonetheless producing amsoniap
sulfate fertilizer at the rate of 20C1a- tons/day, which is the seise
range as the old production, the quality, of course, is pooreri
the crystals are smaller and the product sealys However, a pro4.
oat of former quality would limit production to 300 tons/day,
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1940 the ammonia: production at Lewes was 1000 tows of fixed
nitrogen/dayp and. the capacity was perhaps up to 2000 tons/
day. Later, with increased coal. hydrogenation, requiring dual
use of compressors, gas generators, and purifiers, the-ca ppaoit*
was decreased to about 13110 tons/day. During the war., after
the bombing had started, the daily production was reduced to.
800 tons of fixed nitrogen/day, although the capacity was still
about 1300 tons day. the production was about 720
tons/daye the Leun9 50X1
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synthesis gas capacity of 3009000-600,000 normal cubic meters hr
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as reduced 100,000 by bombing and another 150,000 by disman is
from which it could be concluded that 30-40% of the synthesis
plant was dismantled. Howevers this figure applies only insofar
an synthesis gas is ooncerni Relatively speaking,'the ammonia
plant did not suffer as much as the hydrogenation and methanol
plant 0. the ammonia production capacity of the 50X1-HUM
dismantled equipment shipped to 8evero-Donetok would be about '
300 tone of fixed nit~rogem/days
evert- ones was apparssn
that work on the construction of the steam plant, which could
be soon from the outside, was being pushed and almost completed,
an ammonia plant was tc be oreofied
n sovera,iil 111 s , an the laEnt
as actually undergoing installation.
the technical installation was started
brawn gases from the oxides of nitrogen a9c~,d
be absaerved, but
time the source of ammonia at that
was from tank tears.
Dr Hora1do While W 1.. at the "at ]Eaten .
toga for.-K tr* g.n Production in tosaeow was asked by the
r ~. -: Director to plan a research laboratory for Neverl
Donetsk, for ammonia, nitric said, ammonium nitrate, silaita
;%nitrate, calcium ammon9.um nitrate or Leuna saltpeter,, mrea,
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34 per cent of the Leung ammonia eyrw .
thesis plant was dismantled. and shi ed to 8evero~-Donetsk.
hydrogen was intended for the
mmonia synthesis plant at $ayero- one s
he intended segos of hydrogen was from normal water gas. ,fan.
Mors. The water s was to be produced from n$aimkoh1,, as
rd coal, mined in a Tents coal basin,
g.Yero-D+neialic,
pro uc s are eing pradtsco
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meth ;nol, isobutanol, and higher alcohols which were to be
esterified to yield phthallio anbyd.ride- to produce plasticisers
known by the trade name ?alatinol .
concerning Soviet plans. for pro-
,ammonium nitrate would, be the main item of production
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is not a particularly good fertilizer. It would,
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uses in industrial explosives.
marts floats used for measuring the Go
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cent tion of heavy water.
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uri.n, the war these floats were purohased, perhaps from 8ahette
and Geneses, in Jena. After the war the were no longer avail-
able, end Cci petrianov 5
the s f71.:~:r~t . chief, tried his luck at blowing them. They 'were
very simple and.primitive,.roughly tear-drop In shape, with
bulb diameters of about 0.5 inches, and about 1 inch long*
There were .at least-2-4 sets r
perhaps g1together. All measurements were made at a tempes`s#
tore of 20 C. About 6 ~eppler thermostats wars dvailab3.e
but not all were in working order.
All of the sets at 1euma were taken to the Karp~ov Institute in
Moscow.
ranges of EDO ooncentratia
the quarts
floats ~rsrrs nabs . each set oovcred the entire ran,go,
with relatively more floater. for the lower range.
ammonium nitre
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