![]() ![]() Now there is all kinds of markets opening up,” said Chris Mancinelli, a chemical engineer with Casale, a Swiss engineering company that designs ammonia and fertilizer plants. It (ammonia) was a fertilizer industry product for the longest time. The change in perspective can be summed up in five words: ammonia is bigger than agriculture.Įngineers and scientists have realized that ammonia could be used to generate electricity, as a shipping fuel, to power boilers, as a safe way to store hydrogen and dozens of other uses. That 80 percent figure may soon change because companies and countries are thinking differently about ammonia. ![]() “As an important base material for fertilizers, ammonia literally helps to put our food on the table.” “Ammonia binds air borne nitrogen and makes the most important crop nutrient, nitrogen, available for nitrogen fertilizer production,” ThyssenKrupp says on its website. That figure comes from ThyssenKrupp, a corporation that employs about 100,000 people in 56 countries. Right now, about 80 percent of global ammonia production is used for fertilizer.
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