Fertilizers

thyssenkrupp’s Industrial Solutions business area has received a new order for the construction of a fertilizer plant in Poland. The customer for the project is ANWIL, a subsidiary of PKN ORLEN, one of the largest oil industry corporations in Central and Eastern Europe from Poland. The new facilitie more

The solution to a 75-year-old materials mystery might one day allow farmers in developing nations to produce their own fertilizer on demand, using sunlight and nitrogen from the air. Thanks to a specialized X-ray source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, researchers at the Georgia Institute o more

Abundant in nature (78% of the air we breathe), nitrogen is rarely used in the industrial production of chemicals, with the most important process being the synthesis of ammonia, which is in turn used for the preparation of agricultural fertilizers. Using nitrogen as a raw material ("feedstock") for more

Sustainability, Vol. 10, Pages 2028: Reuse of Animal Manure: A Case Study on Stakeholders’ Perceptions about Pelletized Compost in Northwestern Italy Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su10062028 Authors: Niccolò Pampuro Federica Caffaro Eugenio Cavallo The present study aimed at investi more

IJMS, Vol. 19, Pages 1762: Molecular Genetics and Breeding for Nutrient Use Efficiency in Rice International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms19061762 Authors: Jauhar Ali Zilhas Ahmed Jewel Anumalla Mahender Annamalai Anandan Jose Hernandez Zhikang Li In the co more

Sustainability, Vol. 10, Pages 1988: Sustainable Land Use, Soil Protection and Phosphorus Management from a Cross-National Perspective Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su10061988 Authors: Jessica Stubenrauch Beatrice Garske Felix Ekardt The scarcity of phosphorus (P) is a global concer more