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 nitrate, not calcium ammonium nitrate as was earlier reported.
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, which will produce liquid ammonium nitrate. U.S. Nitrogen, which is owned by Austin Powder, Cleveland, Ohio, would pipe nitric acid to the plant.
While the air permit is being sought, sources say the plant is still being studied and a final agreement has not been made.
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.