Magazine: Nitrogen+Syngas

As Europe struggles to move away from its previous dependence on imported Russian natural gas, prices have been high and volatile, with a corresponding catastrophic impact upon domestic ammonia production.

We are very pleased to be able to tell you that, as of this issue, Nitrogen+Syngas magazine has a new publisher. Or rather, an old publisher, as the magazine is now once again part of the CRU Group.

Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Limited has appointed Vighneshwar G Bhat as company secretary and compliance officer. Bhat, is an associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a Law Graduate and holds master’s degree in commerce with more than 20 years of experience in secretarial and legal functions. Prior to joining the company, he was company secretary for Sobha Ltd, and has specialised in corporate secretarial matters including mergers and acquisitions, handling liquidations and SEBI & FEMA compliances.

Market Insight courtesy of Argus Media

Casale presents different scenarios based on energy availability for the integration of an existing ammonia facility with green hydrogen to supplement or replace the grey ammonia production with green ammonia.

While producing ammonia with hydrogen from electrolysis remains expensive, large scale lower carbon ammonia has focused on carbon capture and storage from existing plants, so-called ‘blue’ ammonia. But exactly how green is blue?

TOYO has a long history in urea granulation technologies and has recently added two new technologies to its product line-up.

It is common knowledge that wet CO₂ is corrosive to carbon steel and “dry” CO₂ is not corrosive to carbon steel. So typically engineers and contractors choose carbon steel for dry CO₂ conditions and stainless steels for wet CO₂ conditions. This can be seen in the CO₂ feed section of almost every older urea plant. But is it true that carbon steel is always the right choice for dry CO₂ and is dry CO₂ really dry under all circumstances?

With the current focus on decarbonising ammonia production, Johnson Matthey explains the important role of high activity ammonia synthesis catalyst in the production of green ammonia.

Merchant markets for ammonia have faced considerable disruption in recent years due to the covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine.