Nitric acid: production costs?
Global production of nitric acid is 60MTpa, in a $25bn pa market, spanning c500 production facilities. c80% of the world’s nitric acid is used to make ammonium nitrate, for fertilizers…
Energy economics: energy content of combustion fuels?
The purpose of this data-file is to disaggregate the energy content of combustion fuels, including natural gas, different oil products, NGLs, coal, hydrogen, methanol, ammonia et al. $299.00 – Purchase Checkout Added…
Phosphoric acid production costs?
…is used in the fertilizer industry, often in the form of ammonium phosphate, for which 40-50% concentrations are sufficient. High-grade phosphoric acid is also used in the food and electronics…
CO2 intensity of materials: an overview?
…the data-file. We have estimated separately the CO2 intensity of different wood fuels, crop production, how it varies with fertilizer application, palm oil. All of our biofuels research is here….
CO2 offsets: Pachama’s AI platform?
…of the entire global fertilizer industry per our CO2 breakdown. This raises some question marks. It gets a bit philosophical, but in our view, carbon “offsetting” should be about cancelling…
Our Top Ten Research Notes of 2020
…offset another 3-15GTpa of CO2. With a $30/ton CO2 price, mid-Western farmers could make more money farming carbon than corn. The theme would also disrupt the global fertilizer industry. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2020/05/01/conservation-agriculture-farming-carbon-into-soils/…
Nature based solutions to climate change: a summary
…as one third of the atmosphere’s post-industrial CO2 derives from degradation of soil carbon. Fertilizer demand would also halve in this scenario. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2020/05/01/conservation-agriculture-farming-carbon-into-soils/ The need for land is one of…
Biogas: the economics?
…and the value of residual digestate, which can be used as fertilizer or bedding in agriculture. Our base case biogas cost model sees a 10% IRR from a combination of…
European gas: anatomy of an energy crisis?
…long-term, as the US can produce the same materials, at lower feedstock costs, while possibly also decarbonizing at source, via blue hydrogen value chains (examples below). https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/04/13/blue-ammonia-options-strategy/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/08/10/polyurethanes-what-upside-in-energy-transition/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/07/06/hydrogen-reformers-smr-versus-atr/ The…
Polyurethane: production costs?
…chains, naphtha cracking, air separation, hydrogen production, chemical separations, CO2 separation, ammonia synthesis, nitric acid, methanol, formaldehyde, chlor-alkali, acetylene et al. Can you use green hydrogen to decarbonize polyurethane? Substituting…