How is ammonium nitrate is produced industrially?

Answer 1

There appear to be 16 Suppliers listed at http://www.chemicalregister.com/Nitromethane/Suppliers/pid9538.htm

Found 4 in China that make it and at least one in the U.S.A

http://www.dow.com/angus/prod/nm.htm

http://www.ec51.com/nexporters/nitromethane.html

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This is a racing question not a chemistry question...

All racing nitro comes from Chinese chemical plants. Dow still makes it but they refuse to sell it to racers, quoting security difficulties at racetracks. VP Racing Fuels sells much of the racing nitro in the US, and they get it wherever they can.

Answer 2

Nitrogen, one of the largest volume industrial gases, is produced commercially as a gas or as a liquid by several methods. These include: » Cryogenic Air separation, a process in which air is compressed and cooled to cryogenic temperatures, liquefied and then, relying on different boiling points, separated into its components in a distillation column. This can be done in a co-products plant producing nitrogen, oxygen and argon, or in a Nitrogen Plant (N-Plant) which produces high purity nitrogen only. » Membrane separation, a non-cryogenic technology that uses hollow-fiber polymer membranes to separate gaseous nitrogen from air by selective permeability. Membrane nitrogen is usually lower cost than cryogenically produced nitrogen, but it is also lower purity.

Cryogenic distillation accounts for approximately 85 percent of nitrogen production. It is the prefered supply mode for high volume and high purity requirements. Membrane systems are preferred because of their lower cost and simplicity for smaller and lower purity requirements.

Answer 3

Bubble nitric acid through propane at 350-400 C (622-842 °F).

Answer 4

simply mix ammonia with nitric acid .the neutralisation reaction creates ammonium nitrate.

NH3+HNO3--NH4NO3.

Answer 5

By reacting methane with nitric acid, to replace one hydrogen on the methane with a nitrate group.