Yara North America has filed for air permits to build a new plant in Tennessee, according to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. The plant would produce 50,000 tons per year of calcium ammonium nitrate, according to the local paper, The Greeneville Sun.
The plant would be built at the U.S. Nitrogen Co.’s $220 million complex which is currently under construction in Mosheim, Tenn., in Greene County, in Eastern Tennessee. U.S. Nitrogen, which is owned by Austin Powder, Cleveland, Ohio, would pipe nitric acid to the plant. According to the Sun, the plant would take up four acres, employ 50 people and cost $12-$13 million. Some ten tankers of liquid CAN are expected to be shipped from the plant each day. The plant would consume some three truckloads of local limestone per day.
CAN (8 percent calcium, 21-27 percent nitrogen) is primarily used as a fertilizer but also has other industrial uses.
Also new, U.S. Nitrogen has also filed for an air permit to build a facility that would liquefy carbon dioxide gas, with a production capacity of approximately 270 tons per day. The company is in negotiations with potential partners on this venture. The new facility would significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions.