Sourced conceptual inventories per tonne of solid ammonium nitrate and per tonne of calcium ammonium nitrate (about 27 % N, limestone filler): feeds from stoichiometry with sourced losses, utilities and emissions from EU LVIC-AAF BREF chapter 9. No flowsheet; not reviewed.
Ammonium nitrate and calcium ammonium nitrate by neutralisation of nitric acid with ammonia
Sourced conceptual inventories per tonne of solid ammonium nitrate and per tonne of calcium ammonium nitrate (about 27 % N, limestone filler): feeds from stoichiometry with sourced losses, utilities and emissions from EU LVIC-AAF BREF chapter 9. No flowsheet; not reviewed.
Research outputNot engineering advice and not an approved design: do not use it for construction, operation or safety decisions. What this means
Overview
- Capacity
- per tonne of product (each dataset's basis); no plant size
What goes in and out
In
- AmmoniaFeedstocklinked to ammonia-1 (lca/mappings.yaml)
- Nitric acidFeedstock60 wt% acid by mass of solution, linked to nitric-acid-1 (lca/mappings.yaml)
- LimestoneFeedstockCAN filler only, taken as pure CaCO3 (ASSUMED)
Out
- Ammonium nitrateMain productdataset ammonium-nitrate-pressure-neutralisation-solid
- Calcium ammonium nitrateMain productdataset calcium-ammonium-nitrate-granulation
- WaterEmissionthe acid's water as vapour (ASSUMED residual of the water balance)
- WastewaterWaste
Utilities: Electricity, Steam (imported steam by mass; the source states no pressure for these ranges)
Life cycle assessment
No footprint assessed yet; the process is part of the life-cycle inventory below.
In the open LCI database (cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-a3c52e4) as Ammonium nitrate, solid (prilled or granular) Preliminary; Calcium ammonium nitrate, granulated, about 27 % N Preliminary.
Download it for Brightway, openLCA and other tools.
In the LCI database: system model, datasets and KPIs against the benchmarks
In the LCI database
- Status
- Preliminary 2 unmapped exchanges. Some exchanges have no background mapping yet: they are exported unlinked and count no burden, so the inventory is incomplete.
- System model
- attributional, cut-off (methodology 1.1.0)
- Allocation
- mass (single-output, from default) · product:ammonium-nitrate 100 %
- Allocation
- mass (single-output, from default) · product:calcium-ammonium-nitrate 100 %
- Allocation findings
- none
- Change report
- Not available: this build has no change report against an earlier release.
- Dataset pages
- Ammonium nitrate, solid (prilled or granular) Preliminary · Calcium ammonium nitrate, granulated, about 27 % N Preliminary
KPI benchmark positions
| KPI | Value | Reference range | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ammonia consumption per t of ammonium nitrate | – t/t | 0.213 to 0.213 t/t | 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 | 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 |
| KPI | Value | Reference range | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electricity per t of calcium ammonium nitrate | – kWh/t | 13.2 to 13.2 kWh/t | not evaluated |
| Steam per t of calcium ammonium nitrate | – kg/t | 13 to 13 kg/t | not evaluated |
Maturity and review
Design maturity Concept (claimed): An idea or first flowsheet; numbers are rough. No independent engineering review yet. Automated checks passing is not a review.
Calculation maturity, from the checked evidenceNot assessed
The process has no maturity report (cheme maturity, checks/maturity.json), so no calculation maturity is established.
No level shownThe design maturity (Concept) is the manifest's claim, not evidence. A level appears here once the process's repository holds a current report from
cheme maturity --write.Artifact completeness
Which deliverables exist. They never raise a calculation maturity level: a drawing from unchecked numbers is still unchecked.
Not reported without a maturity report.
Independent review
Not independently reviewed
No independent engineering review yet. Automated checks passing is not a review.
Set by people only. Reaching a calculation maturity level or passing automated checks is not an independent review or an approval.
Where the evidence comes from
- Report
processes/ammonium-nitrate-1/checks/maturity.json(not in the library)- Method
- How ChemE-as-Code checks the levels (requirement by requirement)
Open items
0 open items · 0 closed
New action itemNew engineering holdNew technical queryNew design changeAll issues
Sources
- Library version
- a3c52e4 (process last changed in a3c52e4)
- Data
- Catalog record (JSON) · CC-BY-4.0
- Files
- View the files on GitHub · change history and authors
References
- European Commission, JRC (2007) Reference Document on Best Available Techniques for the Manufacture of Large Volume Inorganic Chemicals - Ammonia, Acids and Fertilisers (LVIC-AAF BREF), August 2007, chapter 9 (AN and CAN)
- Pacific Environmental Services for US EPA (1996) Background Report, AP-42 Section 6.8 (now 8.3), Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer, section 2.2 (route only; no value used)
- Prohaska, T. et al. (2022) Standard atomic weights of the elements 2021 (IUPAC Technical Report), Pure Appl. Chem. 94:573
How to cite
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).
For this process: "Ammonium nitrate and calcium ammonium nitrate by neutralisation of nitric acid with ammonia", ChemE-as-Code process library, version a3c52e4.
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}
}