Posted 1/18/2009 22:47 (#575712 - in reply to #575659) Subject: Re: Why do you choose to or not to use anhydrous?
Are you telling us that producing nitric acid from ammonia and then reacting the nitric acid with additional ammonia to produce ammonium nitrate, and then removing the excess water and prilling (which takes more drying, cooling and coating) the melt takes less energy that just producing ammonia?