Oct

13

Making Fertilizer For Food Fuel & Fiber With Less Energy

October 13, 2021 | 3 Comments

Nanyang Technological University researchers have devised a new less energy intensive method to make a key compound in nitrogen fertilizer, and that may pave the way to a more sustainable agricultural practice as global food demand rises. The method devised by NTU researchers produces a compound known as ‘urea’, which is a natural product found […]

Dec

19

A Way Found to Use Perovskite to Make Fertilizer & Hydrogen

December 19, 2019 | Leave a Comment

Tokyo Institute of Technology scientists have found a way to synthesize a special type of perovskite that promotes the production of ammonia. Ammonia has key applications in fertilizer production and hydrogen energy. This new synthesis process can be carried out at temperatures immensely lower than that of traditional methods for the synthesis of perovskite-oxide materials […]

Jan

29

Making Ammonia Without Using Natural Gas

January 29, 2019 | Leave a Comment

Case Western Reserve University researchers have come up with a new way to create ammonia from nitrogen and water at low temperature and low pressure. They’ve done it successfully so far in a laboratory without using hydrogen or the solid metal catalyst necessary in traditional processes. Ammonia, a compound first synthesized about a century ago, […]

Nov

20

Fertilizer For Energy Crops From Sewage Sludge

November 20, 2014 | Leave a Comment

Researchers from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Universidad Miguel Hernández of Elche have found the way to increase biomass production by using sewage sludge as energy crop fertilizers. The idea’s press release is getting international attention. Its not a new idea exactly. The City of Milwaukee Wisconsin has been the source of “Milorganite“, […]

Jun

15

Wind to Fertilizer Construction Begins

June 15, 2010 | 8 Comments

The Associated Press must be the only press release recipient for some major news. The University of Minnesota Renewable Energy Center at Morris Minnesota has designed a $3.75 million carbon-free system that uses wind power from a towering turbine to produce anhydrous ammonia, NH3, a the most common and widely used nitrogen fertilizer and a […]

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