The first step in the process is to make lime from limestone:

CaCO3 + heat CaO + CO2

this is then heated with Coal in an an anoxic environment to make Calcium Carbide:

CaO + 3C + heat CaC2 + CO

The actual nitrogen fixing comes from reacting Calcium Carbide with pure Nitrogen, thus for this process to be
industrially practical it required the Linde process of fractionation of liquid air. The reaction takes place at 2atm or
~0.2MPa, heated by through the Ohmic heating of a Carbon rod:

CaC2 + N2 CaCN2 + C

Finally in the quest to make Ammonia, the Calcium Cyanamide is mixed with water and NaOH (as a catalyst) for
hydrolysis:

CaCN2 + H2O 2NH3 + CaCO3

The Calcium Carbonate can easily be separated as it is a solid, and the Ammonia can be distilled, allowing the NaOH
to be recycled back for more hydrolysis.

Contrast this with the Haber-Bosch process for making Ammonia, which at the time required the same costly liquid
air seperator as well as an electrolytic seperator for producing hydrogen and higher pressure catalytic reactor:

By simply glaring at it one sees that, as a way of making Ammonia, the Haber-Bosh process is by far simpler. Since it
doesnt require multiple furnaces and the intermediary steps of producing Cyanamide its operating costs should be
lower (assuming one has an efficient electrolysis system for hydrogen). Of course the Ammonia reactor requires an
expensive catalyst and recycle system since a single pass is not particularly efficient.