MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AMMONIA FROM ANAEROBIC DIGESTATE LIQUID

Abstract

The present invention relates to organic nitrogen fertilizers and methods for producing organic nitrogen fertilizers, including retrieving high concentration organic ammonia from discarded organic material.

Claims

1. A method of producing organic ammonia, comprising: a. heating a biowaste material in an anaerobic digester device to drive a biological anaerobic digestion of the biowaste and yield a digested biowaste composition; b. collecting an effluent of the digested biowaste composition; c. heating said waste water effluent to evolve CO.sub.2-laden gas from the effluent; d. heating the decarbonized effluent to extract NH.sub.3 vapor from said decarbonized effluent; and e. passing the NH.sub.3 vapor into an NH.sub.3 concentrating chamber to extract NH.sub.3 and yield an aqueous NH.sub.3 product derived from effluent without chemical reactions.

2. A liquid organic nitrogenous fertilizer composition, comprising an aqueous solution of the aqueous NH.sub.3 product comprising nitrogen that includes molar percentage of .sup.15N of about 1% to about 20% of the total molar N in the aqueous NH.sub.3 product.

3. The composition of claim 2, further comprising an organic acid in a concentration of about 6% to about 50%.

4. The composition of claim 3, further comprising humic acids as a chelation agent for the ammonia.

5. The composition of claim 3, wherein said humic acids is present in a concentration of about 3% to about 8%.

6. The composition of claim 2, wherein the concentration of organically produced ammonia is in a concentration of about 10% w/w to about 20% w/w.

7. The composition of claim 3, wherein the concentration of said organic acid is in a concentration of about 20% w/w to about 40% w/w.

8. The composition of claim 7, wherein said organic acid is a triprotic acid.

9. The composition of claim 7, wherein said organic acid is citric acid.

10. The composition of claim 2, wherein the concentration of organically produced ammonia is in a concentration of about 10% w/w to about 20% w/w.

11. The composition of claim 3, wherein the concentration of said organic acid is in a concentration of about 20% w/w to about 40% w/w.

12. The composition of claim 11, wherein said organic acid is a triprotic acid.

13. The composition of claim 12, wherein said organic acid is citric acid.

14. A liquid organic nitrogenous fertilizer composition, comprising an aqueous solution of aqueous NH.sub.3 product produced without chemical reactions and having a concentration of NH.sub.3 and salts and derivatives thereof in a range of about 3% to about 30% by weight.

15. The composition of claim 14, wherein nitrogen present in said composition includes molar percentage of .sup.15N of about 1% to about 20% of the total molar N in the composition.

16. The composition of claim 14, further comprising an organic acid in a concentration of about 6% to about 50%.

17. The composition of claim 14, further comprising humic acids as a chelation agent for the ammonia.

18. The composition of claim 17, wherein said humic acids is present in a concentration of about 3% to about 8%.

19. The composition of claim 14, wherein the concentration of organically produced ammonia is in a concentration of about 10% w/w to about 20% w/w.

20. The composition of claim 16, wherein the concentration of said organic acid is in a concentration of about 20% w/w to about 40% w/w.

21. The composition of claim 20, wherein said organic acid is a triprotic acid.

22. The composition of claim 20, wherein said organic acid comprises citric acid.

Description

CONCLUSION/SUMMARY

[0033] The present invention provides organic ammonia fertilizer compositions and methods of making the same. It is to be understood that variations, modifications, and permutations of embodiments of the present invention, and uses thereof, may be made without departing from the scope of the invention. It is also to be understood that the present invention is not limited by the specific embodiments, descriptions, or illustrations or combinations of either components or steps disclosed herein. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and its practical application, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the invention and various embodiments with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated. Although reference has been made to the accompanying figures, it is to be appreciated that these figures are exemplary and are not meant to limit the scope of the invention. It is intended that the scope of the invention be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.