Ammonium nitrate, solid (prilled or granular)

Activity Ammonium nitrate and calcium ammonium nitrate by neutralisation of nitric acid with ammonia, RER: the inventory of 1 kilogram of its reference product, attributional, cut-off.

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Research outputAn inventory from a research design at the design maturity its process states, not verified plant data: check its calculation maturity and review status before use. Background activities are referenced by name only; no background data is included. All caveats

What it is

Per 1 t of solid ammonium nitrate (as NH4NO3), gate-to-gate, EU plants of the LVIC-AAF BREF data collection. Feeds from stoichiometry with the sourced losses, utilities as midpoints of sourced ranges.

Reference product: 1 kilogram of Ammonium nitrate, solid (prilled or granular)
Chemical: ammonium-nitrate · grade solid
CAS: 6484-52-2
Code: ammonium-nitrate-1:ammonium-nitrate-pressure-neutralisation-solid:product:ammonium-nitrate
Dataset: ammonium-nitrate-pressure-neutralisation-solid version 0.1.0 · UUID 211b97b6-4530-5417-875c-12a5dc573438
Activity UUID: not available (the library assigns none; use the code)
Database: cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-a3c52e4 (version preview-a3c52e4)
Process: Ammonium nitrate and calcium ammonium nitrate by neutralisation of nitric acid with ammonia
Geography: RER · background inputs with a site rule link at the user's site location (default DE)
Time period: 2000 · valid until 2006
Technology: continuous neutralisation of 60 wt% nitric acid with gaseous ammonia at elevated pressure, evaporation to a melt, prilling or granulation · level current
Boundary: gate-to-gate: ammonia vaporisation, neutralisation, evaporation, prilling or granulation, cooling, screening, exhaust gas and condensate treatment; steam and power from outside; storage excluded
Classification: ISIC Rev.4 2012 (taxonomy/families.yaml (ISIC Rev.4) of the process's families)
System model: attributional, cut-off (docs/system-model.md, methodology 1.1.0)
Allocation: mass, 100 % of the dataset to this product (rule single-output, from default)
one product: nothing to allocate
Rights: CC-BY-4.0

Exchanges per 1 kilogram of Ammonium nitrate, solid (prilled or granular)

As exported: allocated and scaled to the reference product. Provenance: 2 calculated, 4 given, 2 assumed. Pedigree scores (1 best, 5 worst): reliability, completeness, temporal correlation, geographical correlation, further technological correlation.

Preliminary1 exchange is not yet linked to a background dataset. It counts no burden, so the inventory is incomplete: do not read a result from it as complete.

Input	Amount	Unit	Provenance	Pedigree	Linked to
Ammonia, anhydrous (vaporised on site) feed:ammonia stoichiometry NH3 + HNO3 -> NH4NO3 with the sourced losses (ammonia and dust to air). Compare 213 kg/t (BREF Table 9.8, benchmarks/fertilizers.yaml).	0.2128	kilogram	calculated	3 4 5 3 3	Atlas (pinned): Ammonia from natural gas (1500 t/d, steam reforming with air-fed secondary reformer, Haber-Bosch loop) (Liquid ammonia product (refrigerated, to the battery limit), NL) compatible: grade the input names ammonia only; ammonia (Liquid ammonia product (refrigerated, to the battery limit)) is taken; unit kilogram; system model cutoff (one database); allocation exergy (deviation); boundary plant gate (pinned): no distribution or losses; the consumer's dataset counts its delivery
Nitric acid, 60 wt% (weak acid) feed:nitric-acid stoichiometry NH3 + HNO3 -> NH4NO3 with the sourced losses, as 60 wt% acid ((HNO3)3(H2O)7, 59.985 wt%); the source's figures are for 60 wt% acid (BREF Table 9.8) and its range is 50 to 70 wt% (section 9.2.1). Compare 789 kg HNO3 per t (BREF Table 9.8, benchmarks/fertilizers.yaml).	1.312	kilogram	calculated	3 4 5 3 3	Atlas (pinned): Weak nitric acid by dual-pressure ammonia oxidation (1000 t/d HNO3 as 60 wt% acid) (Weak nitric acid 60 wt% to storage, GLO) compatible: grade the input names nitric-acid only; nitric-acid (Weak nitric acid 60 wt% to storage) is taken; unit kilogram; system model cutoff (one database); allocation shares (deviation); boundary plant gate (pinned): no distribution or losses; the consumer's dataset counts its delivery
Electricity feed:electricity EU JRC (2007) LVIC-AAF BREF (Best Available Techniques for the Manufacture of Large Volume Inorganic Chemicals - Ammonia, Acids and Fertilisers), Table 9.3, p. 370 (solid AN, new AN facility, EFMA 2000) electricity	0.0425	kilowatt hour	given	3 4 5 3 3	market for electricity, medium voltage (electricity, medium voltage, DE, site location) in your background (default ecoinvent-3.11-cutoff)
Steam imported, by mass feed:steam EU JRC (2007) LVIC-AAF BREF (Best Available Techniques for the Manufacture of Large Volume Inorganic Chemicals - Ammonia, Acids and Fertilisers), Table 9.3, p. 370, and section 9.4.3, p. 378 (solid AN, 0 to 50 kg/t); import only: steam raised in the neutraliser is used inside the plant and no export is counted	0.025	kilogram	given	3 4 5 3 3	Atlas: steam, saturated, 11 bar(a), per kg, as heat from steam (Atlas unit proxy) (steam, saturated, 11 bar(a), GLO)
Process condensate and scrubber water to waste water treatment output:wastewater EU JRC (2007) LVIC-AAF BREF (Best Available Techniques for the Manufacture of Large Volume Inorganic Chemicals - Ammonia, Acids and Fertilisers), Table 9.5, p. 373 (AMI Linz, 0.24 m3 per t N). Applying one plant's figure, and per t N of this product, is ASSUMED.	0.084	kilogram	assumed	4 4 5 4 4	Atlas (plant): wastewater to treatment, per kg (Atlas unit proxy) (wastewater, by mass, GLO) compatible: grade the input names wastewater only; wastewater (Wastewater treated) is taken; unit kilogram; system model cutoff (one database); allocation mass (single-output); boundary plant gate of a site utility: no utility market yet (docs/markets.md)

Elementary flows

Flow	Direction	Compartment	Amount	Unit	Provenance	Pedigree
Water 075e433b-4be4-448e-9510-9a5029c1ce94	emission	air	4.412e-4	cubic meter	assumed	4 4 5 4 4
Ammonia 87883a4e-1e3e-4c9d-90c0-f1bea36f8014	emission	air	1.53e-5	kilogram	given	3 4 5 3 3
Dust to air (after the scrubbers, filters and cyclones) emission:PM unlinked unlinked, no biosphere mapping: emission of PM (literature) has no biosphere3 flow identity and is not in lci/mappings.yaml biosphere	emission	not linked	3.79e-5	kilogram	given	3 4 5 3 3

Where these numbers come from: each exchange names its source above; the dataset is processes/ammonium-nitrate-1/lca/datasets/ammonium-nitrate-pressure-neutralisation-solid.yaml in library version a3c52e4.

Used by

No other activity of this database links to it.

How good it is

Review: Not reviewed: no LCI review record yet
Data quality: not available
Mass and carbon closure: Not available: a hand-written dataset: no lca/manifest.json records its balance
Change report: Not available: this build has no change report against an earlier release.

KPI benchmark positions

KPI	Value	Reference range	Position
Ammonia consumption per t of ammonium nitrate	– t/t	0.213 to 0.213 t/t European Commission, JRC/EIPPCB (2007) Reference Document on Best Available Techniques for the Manufacture of Large Volume Inorganic Chemicals - Ammonia, Acids and Fertilisers (LVIC-AAF BREF), August 2007 (bref)	not evaluated
Electricity per t of solid ammonium nitrate No open source independent of the dataset found (2026-11-06). The open figure for solid AN is the EFMA (2000) range for a new AN facility, 25 to 60 kWh/t, in LVIC-AAF BREF Table 9.3, p. 370, and the dataset takes its midpoint, so a range made of it would only check the transcription. Table 9.8 (p. 378) gives electricity for the AN solution section only, not for solid AN. US EPA AP-42 section 8.3 and its background report give emissions only.	– kWh/t	not available	not evaluated
Nitric acid (as 100 % HNO3) consumption per t of ammonium nitrate	– t/t	0.789 to 0.789 t/t European Commission, JRC/EIPPCB (2007) Reference Document on Best Available Techniques for the Manufacture of Large Volume Inorganic Chemicals - Ammonia, Acids and Fertilisers (LVIC-AAF BREF), August 2007 (bref)	not evaluated
Steam imported per t of solid ammonium nitrate No open source independent of the dataset found (2026-11-06). The open figure for solid AN is the EFMA (2000) range of 0 to 50 kg/t in LVIC-AAF BREF Table 9.3, p. 370, and the dataset takes its midpoint, so a range made of it would only check the transcription. Table 9.8 (p. 378) gives the steam balances of the neutraliser types, not the import of a solid AN plant.	– kg/t	not available	not evaluated

How to use it

Downloads

cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-a3c52e4.xlsx · bw2io ExcelImporter workbook (bw2io 0.9 Excel layout) · the whole database
code ammonium-nitrate-1:ammonium-nitrate-pressure-neutralisation-solid:product:ammonium-nitrate
cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-a3c52e4-olca-jsonld.zip · openLCA JSON-LD (olca-schema) (2) · the whole database
process 211b97b6-4530-5417-875c-12a5dc573438 (processes/211b97b6-4530-5417-875c-12a5dc573438.json)
cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-a3c52e4-multifunctional.json · Brightway 2.5 multifunctional database (JSON, for the multifunctional package) (cheme-as-code/lci-multifunctional/v1) · the whole database
code ammonium-nitrate-1:ammonium-nitrate-pressure-neutralisation-solid:product:ammonium-nitrate
cheme_as_code_lci-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl · the installer

A file with this activity alone is not available: each file above is the whole database, and the line under it says how to find this activity there.

import bw2data as bd
from cheme_as_code_lci import install

bd.projects.set_current("my-project")   # holds your licensed background + biosphere3
install("cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-a3c52e4.xlsx", background="ecoinvent-3.11-cutoff", location="DE")
activity = bd.get_activity(("cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-a3c52e4", "ammonium-nitrate-1:ammonium-nitrate-pressure-neutralisation-solid:product:ammonium-nitrate"))

While any exchange of the database has no mapping, install() writes nothing and only lists the unlinked exchanges. So the last line finds no activity until the gaps are mapped: the download section gives the ways to use the database now.

How to cite

Ammonium nitrate, solid (prilled or granular), from Ammonium nitrate and calcium ammonium nitrate by neutralisation of nitric acid with ammonia (dataset ammonium-nitrate-pressure-neutralisation-solid 0.1.0), ChemE-as-Code Process Atlas LCI database preview-a3c52e4, activity ammonium-nitrate-1:ammonium-nitrate-pressure-neutralisation-solid:product:ammonium-nitrate. Cite the Process Atlas paper (in preparation, 2026), by Artur M. Schweidtmann and Jana M. Weber, and the ChemE-as-Code Process Atlas LCI database version preview-a3c52e4.

DOI: none yet (the Process Atlas paper is in preparation)

For the data, cite the Process Atlas paper; for the platform that builds and checks it, the ChemE-as-Code paper.

Schweidtmann, A. M. & Weber, J. M. (2026, in preparation). Process Atlas: an open, git-native, reproducible library and life cycle inventory of chemical processes (working title).

BibTeX

@unpublished{schweidtmann_process_atlas,
  author = {Schweidtmann, Artur M. and Weber, Jana M.},
  title = {{Process Atlas: an open, git-native, reproducible library and life cycle inventory of chemical processes (working title)}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://atlas.cheme-as-code.org},
  note = {in preparation}
}

Schweidtmann, A. M. (2026). ChemE-as-Code: An Open-Source Platform for Agentic AI in Chemical Engineering. arXiv:2611.07947. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2611.07947

BibTeX

@misc{schweidtmann_cheme_as_code,
  author = {Schweidtmann, Artur M.},
  title = {{ChemE-as-Code: An Open-Source Platform for Agentic AI in Chemical Engineering}},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2611.07947},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2611.07947},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07947}
}