Sentences with phrase «nitrogen fertilizer manufactured»

«For every pound of nitrogen fertilizer manufactured, at least 10 pounds of carbon dioxide may be released,» Hungria states.

It operates nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing facility which produces ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) fertilizers.

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A major culprit is fertilizer manufacture, which takes nonreactive nitrogen gas in the atmosphere and turns it into ammonia via the so - called Haber - Bosch process.

I'm quite intrigued by their one about manufacturing urea to feed into the oceans to seed algal blooms, which somewhat goes against what I've read about the problems we're storing up synthesising nitrogen fertilizers.

His design was the first economically viable method to harness atmospheric nitrogen and thus manufacture fertilizer.

The subject of chemistry in the fertilizer industry properly, should not be restricted to superphosphate manufacture, since, after all, that is only one part of the industry, nitrogen and potash rapidly acquiring positions of equal importance.

In China, where fertilizer manufacturing is government - subsidized, the average grain yield per acre grew 98 percent between 1977 and 2005, while nitrogen fertilizer use increased a dramatic 271 percent, according to government statistics.

Approximately 90 % of nitrous oxide is released into the atmosphere from nitrogen fertilizer production and nylon products manufacturing.

The CO2 emitted during the manufacture of the nitrogen fertilizer was approximately 0.5 t / ha, which resulted in a net

However, the number is probably closer to 25 - 30 % as they failed to include the «manufacture and use of pesticides and fertilizers, fuel and oil for tractors, equipment, trucking and shipping, electricity for lighting, cooling, and heating, and emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and other green house gases» and «still doesn't include a large portion of the fuel, the synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, some of the nitrous oxide, all of the CFCs and bromines, and most of the transport» and methane emissions.