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===== Short description ===== | ===== Short description ===== | ||
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+ | During the production of nitric acid (HNO< | ||
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+ | Details of the process are outlined below: | ||
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+ | **Catalytic oxidation of ammonia** | ||
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+ | A mixture of ammonia and air at a ratio of 1:9 is oxidised, in the presence of a platinum catalyst alloyed with rhodium and/or palladium, at a temperature of between 800 and 950 °C. The reaction according to the Oswald process is as follows: | ||
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+ | 4 NH< | ||
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+ | Simultaneously, | ||
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+ | 4 NH< | ||
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+ | 4 NH< | ||
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+ | All three oxidation reactions are exothermic. Heat may be recovered to produce steam for the process and for export to other plants and/or to preheat the residual gas. The reaction water is condensed in a cooling condenser, during the cooling of the reaction gases, and is then conveyed into the absorption column. | ||
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+ | ===== Method ===== | ||
+ | In Germany, there are currently seven nitric acid plants. | ||
+ | ==== Activity data ==== | ||
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+ | As this source category is a key category for N< | ||
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+ | This data is made available basically via a co-operation agreement with the nitric acid producers and the IVA (Industrieverband Agrar). As the data provided by the producers has to be treated as confidential, | ||
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+ | According to the IVA, catalytic reduction is used as an abatement method in some of the plants. | ||
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+ | ==== Emission factors ==== | ||
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+ | For NO< | ||
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+ | ===== Recalculations ===== | ||
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+ | With **activity data** and **emission factors** remaining unrevised, no recalculations have been carried out compared to last year's submission. | ||
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+ | <WRAP center round info 60%> | ||
+ | For pollutant-specific information on recalculated emission estimates for Base Year and 2018, please see the pollutant specific recalculation tables following [[general: | ||
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+ | ===== Planned improvements ===== | ||
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+ | Germany is in contact with the IVA with the aim to get a Country-specific EF for the NOx emissions. It is expected that the Country-specific EF will be lower than the Default EF. | ||
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- | ===== Methodology ===== |