The Global Synthetic Ammonia Industry History and Developments /
This monograph is the first comprehensive historical overview of the global synthetic ammonia industry, highlighting its critical role in fixing nitrogen from the air in order to produce the fertilizers that support a significant portion of the world’s population. While the first part includes the s...
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2025.
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| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2025. |
| Serie: | Perspectives on the History of Chemistry,
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| Accesso online: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87978-4 |
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Sommario:
- Agriculture: Fertilizers for Feeding Growing Populations
- The Great Nitrogen Challenge: Synthetic Ammonia
- Luigi Casale and the Foundation of Ammonia Casale SA
- Ammonia Casale in Nobeoka, Japan, and Toulouse, France
- Reorganisation, and Research and Development at Ammonia Casale. The Final Years of Luigi Casale’s Remarkable Life Story
- Casale’s Process Described
- Pure Gases, Compressors, Catalysts, and Special Steels
- American Synthetic Ammonia, 1920-1940
- The United States Emerges as the Global Leader
- Methanol and Urea, New Feedstocks, Steam Reforming, Fertilizers, Postwar Recovery, Regional Expansion
- The Green Revolution, 1,000-tpd Single-Train Ammonia Synthesis
- The Energy Crises, The People’s Republic of China, the Soviet Union, and the 1970s
- Process Innovations in the 1970s and 1980s. International Growth
- Revamping, Catalyst Studies, and Green Hydrogen.