Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | A heat exchanger, so the exhaust is cool enough so it does not melt the plastic air seeder hoses. LOL.
This has been talked about before, and pretty much dismissed as snake oil. The comment was made " How much fertilizer can you get from only burning 1/2 gallon diesel fuel per acre.?"
What seems to have flown right over everyone's head last time, was that the exhaust not only consists of 1/2 GPA of diesel fuel, but it also consists of about 30 gallons by weight of air, which is about 80% nitrogen. That's a heck of a lot of nitrogen flowing out that exhaust stack, and the process of converting air and natural gas (hydrogen) to anhydrous ammonia is not all that different from what is taking place inside that diesel engine
You have diesel fuel which contains a high % hydrogen, air which is 80% nitrogen and a flame burning at in excess of 1300 degrees. to fix nitrogen to ammonia.
Google the process of makng anhydrous ammonia and see if the process is not very similar to what may be going on inside your tractor engine.
A relative got in a bind and wants me to farm 150 acres for him. I had to make an emergency buy last week of urea for this land at $1000 /ton, so I have an open mind about nitrogen from diesel exhaust. :-)
Edited by Jon Hagen 4/16/2008 23:30
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What in the H is that!!!!??????
