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Contact or double contact process. Equilibrium favours low temperature and removal of product by contact with water to give sulfuric acid.

Vanadium(IV) oxide sulfate, VOSO4, can be used as the catalyst instead of vanadium pentoxide.

W. Büchner, R. Schliebs, G. Winter, K.H. Büchel, Industrial Inorganic Chemistry, VCH, 1989

2
SO2
  +  
O2
  +  
V2O5
         
2
SO3
Reactant Page Go To Go To
Sulfur dioxide     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Oxygen     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Vanadium(V) oxide Catalyst    Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Sulfur trioxide     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming

Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
British A-Level Chemistry: AS
Industrial Process: Inorganic
Oxidation: Of Substrate By Reagent
Redox

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