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ETH Zurich: How bacteria fertilize soya
Rhizobia (in blue) in the roots of a plant. The brown structures are plant proteins (coloured electron microscope image). Credit: ETH Zurich / Anne-Greet Bittermann
Atmospheric corrosion supply line molecular sieves NH3 plant
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Christof Group SBN: Experts in HP Equipment
From the strong partnership with Stamicarbon and Sandvik, Christof Group SBN is proud to show you one of our latest delivery: HP Stripper for OCI made by latest generation of Safurex (Star, Degree and Infinity)
Corroded tray clip
This is an old design clip, which is difficult to weld and inspect properly. Nowadays the licensors apply other clip trays designs.
Producing NH3 via SWAP
University of Tokyo
Summary: Ammonia — a colorless gas essential for things like fertilizer — can be made by a new process which is far cleaner, easier and cheaper than the current leading method. Researchers use readily available lab equipment, recyclable chemicals and a minimum of energy to produce ammonia. Their Samarium-Water Ammonia Production (SWAP) process promises to scale down ammonia production and improve access to ammonia fertilizer to farmers everywhere
BADOTHERM Diaphragm Seal after exposure to carbamate gas phase
BADOTHERM has many solutions for ammonia and urea plants
BADOTHERM: Experts in Diaphragm Seals pressure and level measurements
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Yara transforms smartphones into Nitrogen sensors
https://www.yara.com/news-and-media/news/archive/2019/yara-transforms-smartphones-into-nitrogen-sensors/
AKRON line 6 urea plant – NIIK design
This is NIIK’s first grass root urea line and started up in December 2018.
Norman Borlaug
Borlaug, born in 1914, has become the emblem of “techno-optimism”—the view that science and technology, properly applied, will let us produce a way out of our predicament. He was the best-known figure in the research that in the 1960s created the Green Revolution, the combination of high-yielding crop varieties and agronomic techniques that increased grain harvests around the world, helping to avert tens of millions of deaths from hunger. To Borlaug, affluence was not the problem but the solution. Only by getting richer and more knowledgeable can humankind create the science that will resolve our environmental dilemmas. Innovate! Innovate! was his cry.
Ammonia Leak occurs in US part of ISS – NASA
https://sputniknews.com/world/201803281062998860-leak-ammonia-iss-us-part/
Birkeland
Kristian Olaf Bernhard Birkeland (13 December 1867 – 15 June 1917) was a Norwegian scientist. He is best remembered for his theories of atmospheric electric currents that elucidated the nature of the aurora borealis. In order to fund his research on the aurorae, he invented the electromagnetic cannon and the Birkeland-Eyde process of fixing nitrogen from the air. Birkeland was nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times.
Ammonia reactions with water
Putting water on liquid ammonia can be dangerous. Check out:
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Thermowell corrosion
Remedie: apply higher alloy materials and a higher wall thickness at the end of the thermowell
Eurotecnica reactor bundle before cleaning
https://www.ureaknowhow.com/ukh2/library/1337-2018-05-ruocco-eurotecnica-reactor-bundle-cleaning.html
Eurotecnica reactor bundle after cleaning
https://www.ureaknowhow.com/ukh2/library/1337-2018-05-ruocco-eurotecnica-reactor-bundle-cleaning.html
William Vogt
Vogt, born in 1902, laid out the basic ideas for the modern environmental movement. In particular, he founded what the Hampshire College population researcher Betsy Hartmann has called “apocalyptic environmentalism”—the belief that unless humankind drastically reduces consumption and limits population, it will ravage global ecosystems. In best-selling books and powerful speeches, Vogt argued that affluence is not our greatest achievement but our biggest problem. If we continue taking more than the Earth can give, he said, the unavoidable result will be devastation on a global scale. Cut back! Cut back! was his mantra.
