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The Environment Today
Published in Anco S. Blazev, Power Generation and the Environment, 2021
It is obvious from Figure 5-27 that natural gas can be processed into a number of useful products and processes. It is, for example, a major feedstock in the production of ammonia, via the Haber process. Large quantities of natural gas are also used in the production of fertilizers.
Plant Nutrition and Turf Fertilizers
Published in L.B. (Bert) McCarty, Golf Turf Management, 2018
Atmospheric N is the original source of all N used by plants. When synthesized by man, over 90% of all N fertilizers are initially produced by reacting atmospheric N (N2) and hydrogen gas (H2) to form ammonia (2NH3−) (called the Haber process). Large amounts of energy are required in the form of temperature and pressure for this process (Figure 7.2).
The revolt of the chemists: biofuels, agricultural overproduction, and the chemurgy movement in New Deal America
Published in History and Technology, 2021
Hale’s enthusiasm had its roots in the great advances of contemporary chemistry. In Hale’s reading, chemistry’s track record of innovations, and particularly the Haber-Bosch process for the production of synthetic nitrogen, came down to a new chapter in human history. In fact, Hale felt so confident about this new epoch that he wrote about it in a prospectus for the Securities and Exchange Commission: ‘Happily at this stage the civilized world finds itself ushered into the Chemical Age,- an age brought on by great organic chemical discoveries but peculiarly initiated and based upon the synthesis of ammonia (Haber Process) from the elements of the atmosphere’.30 Chemistry was poised to solve many problems, and thus ‘great nations must become chemically minded and chemically disciplined to direct nature’s biochemical processes to universal use’.31 It was no coincidence that the subtitle of Hale’s Farm Chemurgic – ‘Farmward the Star of Destiny Lights Our Way’ – alluded to ‘Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way’, an icon of America’s Manifest Destiny.32