Methods of forming low salt nitrogen-based fertilizer
OwnerMark Folkmaninventor
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Abstract
A method of forming a fertilizer can include three steps: (1) hydrolyzing a starting material to form a hydrolyzed carbon compound; (2) infusing the hydrolyzed carbon compound with nitrogen under high temperature and high pressure to form a nitrogen-infused compound; and (3) oxidizing the nitrogen-infused compound to form the fertilizer. The starting material can be a compound that has a carbon-carbon bond and/or a carbon-hydrogen bond, and in some examples the starting material is a waste or by-product, such as leftover animal feed or plastics. The fertilizer can have a low salt index.
Claims20
A method of forming a nitrogen-containing fertilizer, the method comprising:
- preparing a starting material by grinding the starting material into a powder to increase surface area for further processing and to form a prepared starting material, wherein the starting material is selected from the group of corn, wood, carbohydrates, alcohols, plastics, and oils;
- hydrolyzing the prepared starting material by applying heat and pressure to a reaction vessel containing the prepared starting material and water, to form a hydrolyzed carbon compound;
- ionizing nitrogen gas using an electric-magnetic ionization system to form ionized nitrogen;
- transferring the hydrolyzed carbon compound into a nitrogen infusion reactor;
- infusing the hydrolyzed carbon compound with the ionized nitrogen in a reaction vessel under high temperature and high pressure to form a nitrogen-infused compound;
- transferring the nitrogen-infused compound into an oxidation reactor and oxidizing the nitrogen-infused compound to form the nitrogen-containing fertilizer;
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- separating molecules within the nitrogen-containing fertilizer based on a size of the molecules and packaging smaller-sized molecules as a final fertilizer product.
A method of forming a fertilizer, the method comprising:
- hydrolyzing a starting material to form a hydrolyzed carbon compound, the starting material comprising one or more of:
- a carbon-carbon bond and a carbon-hydrogen bond;
- infusing the hydrolyzed carbon compound with nitrogen under high temperature and high pressure to form a nitrogen-infused compound;
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- oxidizing the nitrogen-infused compound to form the fertilizer.
A fertilizer formed by the following method:
- hydrolyzing a starting material, the starting material comprising at least one of a carbon-carbon bond and a carbon-hydrogen bond, to form a hydrolyzed carbon compound;
- infusing the hydrolyzed carbon compound with nitrogen under high temperature and high pressure to form a nitrogen-infused compound;
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- oxidizing the nitrogen-infused compound to form the fertilizer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.