Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gençer, Emre
• Burniske, Gary R.
• Doering III, Otto C.
• Tyner, Wallace E.
• Agrawal, Rakesh
• Delgass, W. Nicholas
• Ejeta, Gebisa
• McCann, Maureen C.
• Carpita, Nicholas C.

Titel

Sustainable production of ammonia fertilizers from biomass

Ist Teil von

• Biofuels, bioproducts and biorefining, 2020-05, Vol.14 (4)

Ort / Verlag

United States: Wiley

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nitrogen is the most limiting plant nutrient. Inexpensive natural gas has substantially reduced costs of ammonia fertilizer for intensive agriculture in the developed world, but its excessive use negatively impacts downstream ecosystems. By contrast, the availability of ammonia fertilizer is a major economic bottleneck for agriculture in developing countries. A dedicated lignocellulosic biomass crop could supply sufficient substrate to generate optimal nitrogen fertilizer on less than 5% of a grower’s food crop acreage. However, reimagining ammonia generation using biomass could significantly enhance sustainable agricultural productivity in developing countries when combined with emerging catalytic technologies.