Fertilizer plant to be built in Menlo
March 31, 2009

The town of Menlo, about 45 minutes west of Des Moines, is going to be the site of a plant to make anhydrous ammonia from corn cobs and other biomass. The company behind the project says that it can produce the ammonia/nitrogen fertilizer needed for corn and other crop production using a fraction of the amount of biomass waste usually produced by those crops, and at a reliably lower cost than the conventional Haber-Bosch process, which creates that same fertilizer by heating natural gas and ambient air at high pressures.

Ammonia, of course, can be extremely hazardous to human health, so toxic-gas detection equipment is essential in the production process. Please feel free to contact us with your questions.

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