Mastodawn

At a networking event🕸 at a conf a while ago, the person next to me said she's working on emission reduction for the production of "Salpetersäure"⚗️. (Nitric Acid)
I barely knew what that is, but I got interested📚. And, you know how it goes, soon afterwards I ended up sending FOIA🔎 requests about the production of a Vitamin💊 to Swiss🇨🇭 authorities & was asking myself how many Caprolactam factories there are in Europe, and why, on earth, they aren't covered by the Emissison Trading System
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hanno Mar 27

(Ok, not sure that's how it goes for other people, but if I get interested in something, that's how it goes.)
Why should you care? Well, you should care if you care about super-cheap options to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions💨🏭. The production of Nitric Acid and a few other chemicals🧪 causes N₂O, which is the third-most important Greenhouse Gas, and has a warming effect 273 times larger than CO₂.

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hanno

And here's the good news: N2O is composed of Nitrogen and Oxygen💨, so one can turn it into Nitrogen and Oxygen. And that's really cheap💶 compared to almost anything else you could do to reduce emissions.

After having covered this already twice in my newsletter📰, I made a short video🎥 about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RByupbPSGd0

It is cheap and easy to avoid these Emissions #N2O

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hanno Mar 27

Here's what I wrote about N₂O emissions in 2023: https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/the-avoidable-super-greenhouse-gas-from-fertilizer-nylon-and-vitamin-b3-production.html
And here more recently about the situation of European Caprolactam producers, and how, unfortunately, many low-emitting factories in the EU are shutting down: https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/some-of-the-cleanest-polyamide-and-nylon-precursor-factories-are-shutting-down.html

The avoidable Super-Greenhouse-Gas from Fertilizer, Nylon, and Vitamin B3 production

The production of some nitrogen-based chemicals can cause substantial nitrous oxide emissions (N₂O), a potent greenhouse gas. Technology to stop these emissions is cheap and readily available, but it is not always applied.