Ammonia Anhydrous is a co-product from the distillation of coal in the manufacture of coke and coal-gas. Ammonia is formed in the coal gasification stage of the oil from the coal process. Haber-Bosch process where nitrogen and hydrogen are combined under high pressures and temperatures in the presence of a catalyst.
Final product applications
- A promoter of chloramines in the water treatment industry
- A slime and mould preventative agent for the tanning and leather industry
- A stabiliser of natural and synthetic latex
- Cleaning agents in the industrial and commercial cleaners and detergents industry
- Curing and protective agent for leathers and furs
- Developing agent in photochemical processes such as white printing, blue printing and in the diazo duplication process
- Largely used as a refrigerant in the commercial refrigeration industry
- Manufacture of ammonium nitrate
- Manufacture of explosives
- Manufacture of fertilisers
- Manufacture of liquid fertilizers
- Manufacture of nitric acid
- Manufacture of soda ash
- Manufacture of synthetic textile fibers such as nylon, rayon and acrylics
- Manufacture of cosmetics
- Pharmaceuticals
- Manufacture of polyurethanes
- Metal extraction in metal refining processes
- Metal treating (e.g. nitriding, annealing, sintering)
- pH control
- Pre-harvest cotton defoliant, an anti-fungal agent on certain fruits and as preservative for the storage of high-moisture corn
- Pulping of wood and casein dispersant in the coating of paper in the paper manufacturing industry.
- Refrigerant in the industrial, commercial and domestic markets
- Source of hydrogen as a furnace fuel and fuel cell applications
- Source of nitrogen
- Source of protein in the yeast and animal feed manufacturing industries
- Stacks scrubbing/stacks emission control
- Used in downstream electricity generation as a hydrogen rich fuel blend with kerosene in gas turbine generators
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