...million pounds per year.? The production capacity for acrylonitrile (c3h3n) in the US is over 2 million pounds per year. Acrylonitrile, the building block for plyacrylonitrile fibers and a variety of plastics, is produced from gaseous propylene, ammonia and oxygen:
2C3H6(g)+2NH3(g)+3O2---->...