Fertilizer Manufacture

AntrimGlens

Okay, so I didn't pay a great deal of attention during chemistry at school so who can tell me how artificial fertiliser is made?
I mean what chemical reactions and what raw materials are used to produce the N,P, K etc?
Obviously you can't go out and buy a lorry load of nitrogen and potash and potassium and mix them together and pellet it so whats the process.

I'm expecting a detailed answer from brown podzol!!;)

slippy wicket

N is taken from the air afaik in some chemical process.
P&K are mined by the countries lucky enough to have them. For us mainly Russia and Eastern Europe.

freedominacup

slippy wicket wrote: »

N is taken from the air afaik in some chemical process.
P&K are mined by the countries lucky enough to have them. For us mainly Russia and Eastern Europe.

Not always lucky.


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nauru

bogman_bass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate

Pacoa

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvugZJOzr8UoXa5rHsc9JBQwoQ980hQVy

Brown Podzol

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Okay, so I didn't pay a great deal of attention during chemistry at school so who can tell me how artificial fertiliser is made?
I mean what chemical reactions and what raw materials are used to produce the N,P, K etc?
Obviously you can't go out and buy a lorry load of nitrogen and potash and potassium and mix them together and pellet it so whats the process.

I'm expecting a detailed answer from brown podzol!!;)

The only product manufactured around here resembling fertiliser is bull****.:D

Don't know anything about chemistry as I didn't even go to school, just met the students coming home, but I thought n would be a lot cheaper now as a lot of manufacturing capacity was put in place over the last 5 or 6 years to utilise gas that was being flared off during oil extraction.