This book describes different methods for preparing compound fertilizers. It focuses on how some of the raw and intermediate materials are produced and used in the manufacture of compound fertilizers. The book is intended for persons associated with the fertilizer industry.
1. Outlook, Concepts, Definitions, and Scientific Organizations for the Fertilizer Industry
2. Nitrogen
3. Phosphate Rock
4. Potash Mining and Refining
5. Thermal Phosphate
6. Production of Single Superphosphate with a TVA Cone Mixer and Belt Den
7. The Sackett Super-Flo Process
8. Wet-Process Phosphoric Acid Production
9. Granulation
10. Diammonium Phosphate Plants and Processes
11. Review of the Production of Monoammonium Phosphate
12. Granulation Using the Pipe-Cross Reactor
13. Bulk Blending
14. Dry Bulk Blending in the Americas
15. The Norsk Hydro Nitrophosphate Process
16. Controlled Release Nitrogen Fertilizers
17. Fluid Fertilizer
18. Environmental Regulations
19. Concentrated Superphosphate: Manufacturing Processes
Mr. Nielsson is a long-time member of the Board of Directors of the Fertilizer Industry Round Table and was chairman of that group in 1979 and 1980. He is also active in the American Chemical Societys Division of Fertilizer and Soil Chemistry, and in 1983 he received that Divisions Award of Merit.
