AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Work
GOALS
Zero Hunger, Climate Action
KEYWORDS
agriculture, sustainable agriculture, livestock, food preservation
COUNTRY
Norway
DESIGNED BY
N2 Applied
WEBSITE
https://n2.no
N2 Applied
Enabling farmers to produce cost-competitive, quality fertilizer and reduce ammonia emissions
More than 22 million tons of ammonia are lost from livestock farms around the world every year. Losing ammonia to the air or to the ground is not sustainable. It means lost fertilizer which is essential for growing crops and subsequently feeding the planet.
Lost ammonia is a waste of nutrients. The farmer needs to replenish lost nutrients through purchase of expensive, fossil-fuel based nitrogen fertilizer. Today’s industrial fertilizer value chain is costly and harmful to the environment.
N2 Applied has developed a technology to produce nitrogen fertilizer on the farm, through fixing nitrogen from air and reaction with ammonia in manure or biogas digestate. The reaction stops the ammonia losses and increases the nitrogen content in the manure or digestate. It also removes the odor from the nitrogen enriched fertilizer product. N2’s technology enables the livestock farmer to recycle nitrogen and produce his own fertilizer with lower greenhouse gasses.