Anhydrous Ammonia Farm Trailers For Your Farm Needs

[rpicardi1]

Just got permission to place these custom objects in the forum library. Speciality trailers, such as the ones owned by the Heartland Co-op, are use by farmers to apply nitrogen ferlizer directly to their fields of corn and other crops. They can be found in storage yards of farm supply stores, on the farm, or in the field behind a tractor.

The uploaded trailers were designed for use in Todd Taylor's Heartland Farm Route currently under development. Route builders can customize the SRV_NH3Trailer.ace if they need to use a custom logo for their route.

Tried to post this last night but Charter's internet server suffered a crash and burn. Baud rate dropped to zero - no response at all.

SRV Ron

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[Drailon]

Ahhhhhhh that would be a wonderful addition to my prairie routes. Good job Ron :)

[Ohara]

may I ask what Anhydrous Ammonia is?

and what is the chemical formula for it anyway?

[Erick_Cantu]

Fertilizer - NH3.

[Drailon]

Stuff you really wouldn't like to smell.

[CRQ5508]

Anhydrous Ammonia??? this is Fertilizer???? I see tank cars up here in NH going to the PSNH power plant that say "Anhydrous Ammonia" or something like that.... I know that stuff is used for cleaning, but I didn't know it also served as a Fertilizer. then agin it's been awhile since i've seen one of the tankers, so I'm probably thinking of something completley different, but I know it has ammonia in it.... any ideas?????

-LONG LIVE CONRAIL C32-8s!!!!!

[cnwfan]

>Stuff you really wouldn't like to smell.
So true Rory! Ismelled it ennough times to know what it is. Farmers use it in the fall and spring before or after planting or harvesting there bean crops or corn on corn(new thing in farming) fields

Todd
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[jb17kx]

It's actually been mostly replaced, at least down here, by Superphosphate...

[cnwfan]

Didn't know that ! but here in the midwest its still used not as much because of the price of the cost of it
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[inflammable]

Ammonia is good for a ton of things. Ferilizer, cleaner, corrosion inhibitor, chemical stuff.


Just to nitpick, but still trying to be respectful of your experiences, anhydrous ammonia is called that because it isn't pure, it is cut with water. The formula for it in that state, according to what i've seen, is NH4OH, with the extra HOH being the water.

James

[cbq311]

http://www.rmtech.net/Anhydrous%20Ammonia.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia

[chosenfrozen44]

its also used as a refrigerant......

CG

[rpicardi1]

Anhydrous Ammonia is the liquified gas formed under pressure in the trailer. When injected into the soil, it picks up the moisure forming ammonium hydroxide which plants can then use for a nitrogen source. Prices vary according to the cost of natural gas which is currently high, so other sources of nitrogen such as ammonium nitrate are also used. (under the close watch of the Feds as high grade ammonium nitrate can be used in explosives.)

Currently, farmers and farm supplies have to keep their trailers secure from thief of the product which is one of the chemicals used in making meth. Such criminals often end up damaging the trailers resulting in a hazardous chemical spill of ammonia gas which poses a hazard to everyone in the area as well as the criminal. The white cloud that forms is the result of the ammonia gas combining with the moisture in the air.

SRV Ron

[GrandTrunkFan]

Great stuff Ron. Keep it comming with the farming stuff, god knows Im liking it. :D

[DRGWK36]

Ammonia gets used in the manufacture of a lot of things, including fertilizer. At the power plant, it's injected into the exhaust gas (while the gas is still pretty hot) to react and remove oxides of nitrogen. There are a couple of processes that do this, but they use either ammonia or urea, which is very similar. Around the house, you can find ammonia in cleaners (Windex, etc.), but that's not why they need tanks of it at power plants.

Andy