Nitrogen

The Grupa Azoty Group has released estimated output figures for August, highlighting the third consecutive month of steady growth in nitrogen fertilizer production.

The findings support long-term initiatives to develop new crop varieties with root-related traits that help agricultural producers optimise fertilizer applications.

A collaboration between two labs at Northwestern University, partnering with the University of Toronto, has found that producing urea using electrified synthesis could both denitrify wastewater while enabling low-carbon-intensity urea production.

After announcing the allocation of €4 billion to stimulate the activation of low-carbon hydrogen projects, this visit was an opportunity to see the implementation of one of the projects that could apply for this new support mechanism.

The plant based in Linz, Austria, has the aim to treat wastewaters coming from an LP-technology based melamine plant and from an HP-technology based melamine plant.

Between August and September of this year, Yacimientos Petrolófilos Fiscales Bolivianos committed to the delivery of 2500 t of granulated urea that will be used as raw material in the production plant of Cochabamba Granulated Fertilizers.

Under the agreement, COMPO EXPERT will expand the distribution of Grupa Azoty fertilizers in foreign markets.

Research teams from Iowa State University and Wichita State University are developing a system that captures waste nitrogen and carbon dioxide to produce a green fertilizer that reduces emissions of nitrous oxide.

The project is set to enhance production efficiency by substantially decreasing the energy intensity of the fertilizer manufacturing process, and will help to reduce energy consumption in the production process by over 250 000 GJ per year.

The companies have completed the Kooragang Island Decarbonisation Project in Newcastle, Australia, with the commissioning of thyssenkrupp Uhde’s EnviNOx® technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at Orica’s three on-site nitric acid plants.

The company has announced that it has signed a 60-year commercial lease for the site of the Capanda green ammonia project, located in Malanje Province, Angola.

The offering makes anhydrous ammonia sampling safer by minimising operators’ exposure to liquid and vapourised ammonia.

In its objective of advancing towards the decarbonisation of the global agri-food sector, Grupo Fertiberia will supply Marks & Spencer with its Impact Zero green fertilizers with the aim of reducing the carbon footprint of 27 dairy farms.

The company has announced a proposal to permanently close the ammonia plant at its Billingham Complex in order to secure the long-term sustainability of its business in the UK and more efficiently serve its customers in the country.

The company has announced the signing of a framework agreement for the purchase of green ammonia from Iberdrola.