October 2024
This issue begins with a keynote article from the International Fertilizer Association (IFA) exploring the technologies and strategies that could help reshape the future of the fertilizer industry. This issue also includes articles looking at the use of green hydrogen to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, process safety considerations, corrosion protection, transfer equipment, and much more.
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Contents
Navigating the Path to Decarbonisation and Beyond
Lucia Castillo Nieto, Patrick Heffer and Volker Andresen, IFA Secretariat, explore the technologies and strategies that could help reshape the future of the fertilizer industry.
Great Expectations
Tim Allen, PXiSE Energy Solutions, (a Yokogawa company), USA, considers how the fertilizer industry is moving towards the use of green hydrogen to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Key Process Safety Considerations
Anna Savunen, AFRY Process Industries, Finland, presents some of the main process safety considerations that must be recognised in fertilizer plant engineering.
Full Steam Ahead
Kirk Brooks, Nutrien, Canada, explains how embracing technology is helping to make railroading safer at nitrogen operations.
Mitigating the Reverse Midas Touch of Fertilizer Corrosion
Julie Holmquist and Lisa Marston, Cortec® Corp., USA, outline how an annual preventative maintenance solution promises to slow down the corrosion clock in the production, distribution, and application phases of the fertilizer industry.
Mill Optimisations for Low Grade Phosphate
Ian Hancock, Bradley Pulverizer, UK, discusses several machine wear enhancement options for mills, classifiers, and milling systems for phosphate fertilizer production.
Digitalising Conveyed Flow Quality
Henry Kurth, Scantech International Pty Ltd, Australia, discusses the advantages of real time elemental, moisture and particle size analysis of conveyed materials, particularly phosphate rock in phosphate processing operations.
Choosing the Right Transfer Equipment
Kelvin Feist, Sackett-Waconia, explains why the efficient and reliable movement of bulk materials is a critical component of modern fertilizer production and distribution.
Playing by the Rules
Todd Swinderman, Martin Engineering, USA, discusses the new CEMA guidelines as it provides additional direction on actionable and critical mistracking.
Common Problems, Effective Solutions
World Fertilizer sat down with Rob van Oijen, Manager Application Engineering, Fenner Dunlop Conveyor Belting, the Netherlands, to get his advice on some of the most common problems facing conveyor operators in the fertilizer industry.
The Tradition of Innovation
Zico Zeeman, EMT, the Netherlands, outlines how machines can be specially designed to significantly increase efficiency and precision in fertilizer handling and packaging.
Organic Solutions
Corinna Jansen, Fertipaq, the Netherlands, introduces an organic sulfur fertilizer that is recovered from wastewater and biogas streams.
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