Latest Nitrogen Stories

If we could make plant food from nitrogen the way nature does, we'd have a much greener method for manufacturing fertilizer – a process that requires such high temperatures and pressures that it consumes about 1.5 percent of the world's energy. Now scientists working at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have taken an important step towards understanding how nature performs this trick, by identifying a key atom that researchers had sought for more than a...

For the past 100 years, the Haber-Bosch process has been used to convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, which is essential in the manufacture of fertilizer. Despite the longstanding reliability of the process, scientists have had little understanding of how it actually works. But now a team of chemists, led by Patrick Holland of the University of Rochester, has new insight into how the ammonia is formed. Their findings are published in the latest issue of Science. Holland calls...

The system simply and easily delivers nitrogen gas for foaming adhesives/sealants or for creating nitrogen blankets. Duluth, Georgia (PRWEB) November 04, 2011 The Nordson Corporation (Nasdaq: NDSN) introduces a nitrogen generation system that creates a continuous, uninterrupted supply of 95 to 99.5 percent pure nitrogen gas. As a replacement for cumbersome, expensive nitrogen gas cylinders, the nitrogen generation system enhances operation of many Nordson adhesive dispensing systems. The...

Scientists braved ticks and a tiger to discover how human activities have perturbed the nitrogen cycle in tropical forests. Studies at two remote Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatory sites in Panama and Thailand show the first evidence of long-term effects of nitrogen pollution in tropical trees. "Air pollution is fertilizing tropical forests with one of the most important nutrients for growth," said S. Joseph Wright, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research...

SUGAR LAND, Texas, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CVR Partners, LP (NYSE: UAN), a master limited partnership and manufacturer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) solution fertilizer products, announced today declaration of a cash distribution of 57.2 cents per common unit for the third quarter of 2011. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080226/CVRLOGO ) The distribution will be paid Nov. 14, 2011, to unit holders of record on Nov. 7, 2011. Set by the board of CVR GP, LLC,...

Max Planck scientists unravel key pathway in the nitrogen cycle The anaerobic oxidation of ammonia (anammox) is an important pathway in the nitrogen cycle that was only discovered in the 1980s. Currently, scientists estimate that about 50 percent of the nitrogen in the atmosphere is forged by this process. A group of specialized bacteria perform the anammox reaction, but so far scientists have been in the dark about how these bacteria could convert ammonia to nitrogen in the complete...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Sept. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD) today announced that it will increase production of gaseous nitrogen in Cheonan City, South Chungcheong Province, Korea to serve the increasing demand of the electronics industry in one of the country's leading areas for technology manufacturers. Air Products will build a new nitrogen plant at its site in Cheonan Industrial Complex. The new plant is expected to be onstream in the spring of 2012 and will serve the...

Changes in the ratio of nitrate to phosphorus in the oceans off the coasts of Korea and Japan caused by atmospheric and riverine pollutants may influence the makeup of marine plants and influence marine ecology, according to researchers from Korea and the U. S. "Normally in a marine environment nitrate is the limiting factor, but increased nitrate in the ocean can spur growth and create a situation where phosphorus becomes the nutrient in short supply," says Raymond G. Najjar, professor of...

SUGAR LAND, Texas, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CVR Partners, LP (NYSE: UAN), a master limited partnership and manufacturer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) solution fertilizer products, announced today that Randal Maffett has been named as executive vice president of business development for the partnership's general partner, CVR GP, LLC. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080226/CVRLOGO) Based at CVR Partners' headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, Maffett is responsible...

A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) soil scientist in Colorado is helping farmers grow crops with less nitrogen-based fertilizer. The fertilizers are a major reason why agriculture is a significant source of both greenhouse gas emissions and pollution in estuaries like the Gulf of Mexico and the Chesapeake Bay. If growers apply too little fertilizer, it reduces crop yields. But if they apply too much, the excess can be released into the atmosphere as nitrous oxide or leach into...